Sr. Software Development Engineer at Ispottv · LumiJobs

Responsibilities

Technical Excellence & Domain Ownership
Coding & Debugging: Design domains with testability and multiple teams in mind, creating extensible and shareable codebases. Provide prescriptive code reviews that suggest more acceptable code patterns and contribute to company-wide style guidelines.
Quality & Release: Maintain a high standard of quality, setting the example for the team. Develop the architecture for our automation systems and expertly debug complex issues within the CI/CD pipeline. Implement secure deployment strategies, especially for large-scale, high-risk projects.
AI-Driven Productivity & Innovation
AI-First Mindset: Be “AI-native.” Actively explore and learn about AI technologies that enhance the efficiency of the entire team’s work.
Leading Adoption: Don’t just use AI; “create space” for teammates to improve their AI tooling through pairing, providing demos, and writing documentation.
Creative Problem Solving: Act as a pioneer in critical technologies, bringing creative solutions to complex, large-scale projects and ensuring your contributions can be extended far into the future.
Operational Excellence & Data Strategy
Data-Driven RCA: Propose and implement viable domain measurement solutions. Play a lead role in researching external solutions and leading root cause analysis (RCA) for complex, multi-domain incidents.
Operational Efficiency & Toil Reduction: Proactively improve the current state of operations by identifying and reducing toil. Apply a “Platform Engineering” mindset to automate repetitive manual tasks, ensuring the team remains focused on high-value engineering.
Scalability & Influence: Build internal networks to improve organizational speed and the quality of technology solutions, removing obstacles for the team as they arise. Serve as the “go-to” person for the team, identifying trends and introducing broad solutions to address systemic issues.
Cost-Conscious Engineering: Drive a mature cost-optimization strategy, ensuring that architectural decisions and cloud resource utilization are both performant and cost-efficient. Balance technical excellence with business value, treating cost-consciousness as a core pillar of system reliability.

Qualification

ExperienceArchitectural LeadershipPlatform EngineeringCloud NativeTech RequiredAI NativeSoft SkillsTarget cash compensation rangeHybrid & Flexible Workplace Policy

Required

Experience: Significant experience developing software for shareable features across multiple engineering projects. Experience leading small-to-mid-sized technical initiatives is required.
Architectural Leadership: Proven ability to make high-level architectural decisions, including redesigning legacy services to ensure they are highly reliable and operable. Follows industry best practices for high-availability API design and the streamlining of complex database operations.
Platform Engineering: Hands-on experience with Platform Engineering principles, focusing on internal developer experience, infrastructure abstraction, and building self-service capabilities for engineering teams.
Cloud Native: Expert knowledge of AWS (S3, Lambda, EC2, IAM).
Tech Required: Java, Spring Boot, MySQL, RabbitMQ (or similar message broker), Kubernetes/EKS, Docker, CI/CD pipelines.
AI Native: Experience using AI coding assistants and LLMs to accelerate development (e.g., Kiro, Gemini, Copilot, Cursor, or similar, Claude Code).
Soft Skills: Strong communication skills with the ability to tailor messaging to different audiences (from junior devs to senior leadership). Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.

Preferred

Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and CI/CD concepts (CircleCI).
A track record of identifying trends in incidents and introducing broad solutions to address them.
Target cash compensation range: $140,183 - $179,436 USD Annually
We are committed to providing competitive, market-informed compensation. The cash compensation above includes base salary, variable commission for employees in eligible roles, and annual bonus targets for eligible roles. In addition to cash compensation, all full time iSpotters are eligible to participate in iSpot’s equity plan to receive stock options. Non-exempt roles will also be eligible for (pre-approved) overtime pay. Individual compensation packages are influenced by different factors unique to each candidate, including their skills, experience, qualifications and other job-related reasons.
For more information on total rewards package, go HERE
Hybrid & Flexible Workplace Policy
iSpot supports a hybrid and flexible workplace. Depending on location and work responsibilities, employees may be designated as full-time or part-time office-based or a fully remote employee. A hybrid work schedule indicates that you work in the office some days and work from home other days. The best hybrid workplaces allow for flexibility while also encouraging consistency.

Sr. Software Development Engineer

Responsibilities

Qualification

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Preferred

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Ispottv

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