Senior Software Developer

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Hiring Company: ZENDA, LLC

One-liner: ZENDA is a SaaS collaboration platform focused on process intelligence and operational resilience.

Salary: $150K/yr - $240K/yr

Why Join Us:

Role Responsibilities

• Design and ship scalable APIs and backend services in Node.js (Nest.js) and Python (FastAPI)

• Architect and evolve a distributed, event-driven microservices ecosystem with Kafka at its core

• Contribute directly to product features — not just the plumbing

• Design and own our cloud infrastructure using Terraform on AWS

• Operate and scale Kubernetes environments with an emphasis on reliability, performance, and security

• Build monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing systems that make production debuggable and resilient

• Establish the standards the rest of the team builds on top of

• Build the infrastructure that makes AI real in production: pipelines, agent frameworks, data processing systems, and model integrations

• Partner with product and data teams to move fast without cutting corners on reliability or scale

• Own the internal platform — CI/CD pipelines, local dev environments, deployment workflows, and the tooling that lets engineers focus on building instead of fighting their setup

• Make the developer experience a competitive advantage

• Lead critical backend initiatives from design to delivery

• Drive architectural reviews

• Mentor engineers through hard problems

• Raise the bar on quality, pragmatism, and ownership across the team

Qualitications

Required

• 5+ years building and operating production-grade backend and distributed systems

• Deep hands-on experience with Node.js (TypeScript) and/or Python

• Strong grasp of microservices, event-driven architecture, and message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar)

• Experience building CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and cloud-native systems

• Proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS

• Solid data modeling across relational and/or NoSQL systems

• Experience with AI or data pipelines, automations, or ML-enabled systems

• Comfort operating across the full stack — from infrastructure to backend to data

• Strong plus: familiarity with modern AI tooling — LLMs, embeddings, agent architectures. This space is moving fast and we want people who are excited by that, not intimidated

• We’re looking for someone with a genuine ownership mindset — someone who identifies gaps and fills them, leads without being asked, and cares about outcomes more than job titles

• Clear communication and cross-functional collaboration matter here as much as technical depth