Staff Software Engineer

Join ION, a leading technology company, as a Staff Software Engineer. In this role, you will be responsible for writing and architecting backend code, bridging code and infrastructure, owning architecture at scale, driving reliability and uptime, and building leverage for the team. You will also mentor and set the technical bar for other engineers. This is a coding-heavy role that requires deep understanding of distributed systems, strong hands-on coding skills in modern backend languages, and deep AWS expertise.

• Écrire et architecturer du code backend, construire, mettre à l'échelle et maintenir des services backend et des API performants.
• Posséder la relation entre notre couche d'application et notre infrastructure AWS, en veillant à ce que notre architecture cloud soutienne parfaitement notre livraison logicielle.
• Évaluer et faire évoluer notre architecture backend et cloud pour soutenir une croissance massive des clients, du volume de données et de la surface du produit.
• This is a role for a systems thinker who wants to split their time between scaling our backend codebase and optimizing our cloud footprint
• We’re hiring a Staff Software Engineer who is an exceptional backend engineer equally comfortable writing production-grade application code and architecting the AWS cloud infrastructure it runs on
• If you love building elegant APIs and configuring the Kubernetes clusters or terraforming the AWS environments that support them, you’ll thrive here
• Systems Thinking: Deep understanding of distributed systems, relational databases, caching, message queues, and API design
• Strong hands-on coding skills in modern backend languages (e.g., Python, Go, Node.js). Note: This is a coding-heavy role, not a pure DevOps or configuration position
• Deep AWS Expertise: Demonstrated experience building, deploying, and managing complex systems on AWS (EC2, EKS/ECS, RDS, VPCs, IAM, etc.) using Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform)
• Leadership: Track record of leading large technical initiatives across teams or across a complex codebase
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record of shipping production-grade backend code and owning infrastructure
• Prior experience as a Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead, or senior platform engineer in a high-scale environment
• Depth in one or more of: SRE/reliability engineering, database scalability, multi-tenant architectures, or zero-downtime data migrations
• Experience building internal platforms and developer tooling that abstract infrastructure complexities away from product engineers
• Experience in or affinity for manufacturing, industrial software, or hard-tech customer environments