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Senior Software Engineer II, Backend Platform

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Salary:

160000.00 - 179000.00 USD / Year

Job Description:

As Senior Software Engineer on our Platform team, you will design, build, and maintain the evolution of Wave’s backend ecosystem, owning the reusable software stack that powers every service. This role focuses on defining the Golden Path for frameworks and communication, ensuring our stack is standardized, secure, and provides a best-in-class developer experience for the entire engineering org.

Job Responsibility:

  • Standardize Shared Components: Maintain a single, recommended pattern for web frameworks, container images, and libraries to ensure consistency across the organization
  • Streamline System Communication: Architect the frameworks used for both real-time and background messaging between services to ensure data flows efficiently and reliably
  • Build Developer Centric Wrappers: Create and maintain sophisticated libraries that wrap shared components, making them easy to integrate while preserving the configurability and debug-ability developers need
  • Drive Software Lifecycle: Oversee regular updates for all shared backend components to protect the platform and ensure compatibility with the latest standards
  • Technical Leadership: Lead complex cross-team migrations and architectural reviews, ensuring that platform-level changes are implemented smoothly across the broader engineering organization

Requirements:

  • 8+ years of professional background in backend engineering with a focus on platform, infrastructure, or shared services at scale
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience
  • Experience in building and maintaining reusable software libraries and frameworks, with deep expertise in Python(Django) and containerization tools
  • Extensive proficiency in designing and scaling various inter-service communication methods and patterns, including synchronous and asynchronous systems such as Kafka(Avro), SQS, and gRPC(Protobuf)
  • Expertise in how backend code interacts with Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS-native services at high scale
  • Proven ability to create developer-first tools and a thorough competency in GraphQL gateway that simplifies complex integrations while maintaining technical capability
  • Experience identifying and phasing out redundant technical patterns across an organization to drive toward a unified, efficient stack
  • Exceptional written and oral communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical trade-offs
What we offer:
  • Bonus Structure
  • Employer-paid Benefits Plan
  • Health & Wellness Flex Account
  • Professional Development Account
  • Wellness Days
  • Holiday Shutdown
  • Wave Days (extra vacation days in the summer)
  • Get A-Wave Program (work from anywhere in the world up to 90 days)

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 18, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Remote work
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