IT - Software Developer - Senior

This role focuses on Java-based API development, cloud-native deployments (GCP or equivalent), modern access management protocols, and AI-assisted software development. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and operate high-throughput, low-latency, mission-critical platforms.

Functional Job Title: Senior Software Engineer – Java / Identity & API Platforms

**Hybrid 3 - 4 days based out of Austin, TX **

Role Summary
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and operate high-throughput, low-latency, mission-critical platforms. This role focuses on Java-based API development, cloud-native deployments (GCP or equivalent), modern access management protocols, and AI-assisted software development.
You will own services with strict reliability, performance, and availability SLAs, operating at scale in a security-sensitive environment.

Key Responsibilities
Core Engineering

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance Java services supporting REST-based APIs.
• Build cloud-native, horizontally scalable services deployed on GCP and/or other public cloud platforms.
• Develop and secure APIs using OIDC, OAuth 2.0, and SAML-based authentication and authorization flows.
• Implement API-first designs with strong contract discipline, backward compatibility, and understandability.

Scale, Performance & Reliability

• Build and operate highly resilient systems with:

• API latency SLA < 50ms
• Throughput > 5,000 TPS
• Availability ? 99.9%
• Error budget < 0.1%

• Design for fault tolerance, graceful degradation, and fast recovery.
• Apply resilience patterns such as timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, bulkheads, and rate limiting.
• Participate in production support, incident response, RCA, and continuous reliability improvement.

Cloud & Deployment

• Use CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment.
• Own build ? deploy ? run lifecycle, including monitoring, alerting, and capacity planning.
• Work with containerized workloads and modern deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, feature flags).

AI-Enabled Development

• Actively use AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Copilot in agentic mode) to:

• Accelerate feature development
• Improve code quality and test coverage
• Assist with refactoring, documentation, and troubleshooting

• Champion responsible and effective AI usage as part of daily engineering workflows.
• Collaboration
• Partner with platform, security, SRE, and product teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Contribute to architecture reviews, design discussions, and technical decision-making.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years Strong Java expertise with experience building production-grade services.
• 8+ years Hands-on API development experience, including RESTful services and API security.
• Cloud deployment experience on GCP and/or equivalent cloud platforms.
• 2+ Solid experience with Access Management protocols:

• OAuth 2.0
• OpenID Connect (OIDC)
• SAML

• Proven experience building and operating high-criticality systems with strict SLAs.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, and performance optimization and resiliency .
• Experience with observability (metrics, logs, traces) and production troubleshooting.

EEO:
“Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of – Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.”