Lead Software Engineer, Platform Services (Back-end Focus) 807

The role

You will serve as a senior technical leader and hands-on individual contributor focusing on back-end services, API design, and cloud-native delivery. You will design and implement microservices, platform capabilities, and distributed systems to support multiple products.

What you will do

• Design and implement microservices for the UI Shell Platform architecture.
• Define and influence long-term service architecture and technical standards.
• Develop production-grade software using Python, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
• Lead implementation for complex, high-impact systems.
• Define and improve service integration patterns between front-end and back-end components.
• Partner with front-end engineers to deliver end-to-end user experiences.
• Build testable software with automated test coverage and CI/CD-driven delivery.
• Promote reliability, observability, and troubleshooting best practices.
• Identify and reduce friction across engineering workflows.
• Apply GenAI and AI-assisted development practices.

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience designing, building, testing, and operating production-grade software systems.
• Expertise in back-end development, API design, distributed systems, microservices, and scalable platform capabilities.
• Success designing and evolving platform architectures including microservices, API ecosystems, and cloud-native applications.
• Strong programming skills in Python and JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Working knowledge of modern front-end technologies including React, HTML5, and CSS.
• Strong computer science and software architecture fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and system design.
• Experience designing and integrating cloud-native applications using Docker, Kubernetes, and modern CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience working across front-end and back-end boundaries including API contracts, authentication and authorisation, and data flows.
• Proven technical leadership and collaboration skills including influencing technical direction and mentoring peers.

Nice to have

• Experience building or supporting shared platform services, common capabilities, or developer tooling.
• Familiarity with public cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure.
• Experience supporting containerized application delivery using Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.
• Exposure to data security, privacy, compliance, cryptography, or enterprise security-focused products.
• Familiarity with GenAI, LLM-powered product capabilities, AI-assisted development workflows, or agentic engineering tools.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, performance testing, load testing, and production support for distributed systems.
• Working knowledge of code quality, security scanning, artifact management, and software quality platforms such as SonarQube or JFrog Xray.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive benefits
• Generous vacation and holiday time off
• Access to ongoing learning & development

Before you apply

• You will be required to consent to and successfully complete a background investigation.
• Background investigation may include verification of extended education and additional criminal and civil checks.

About the company

Protegrity leads innovation by using AI and quantum-resistant cryptography to transform data protection across cloud-native, hybrid, on-premises, and open source environments. They are a global leader in data security.