Senior Software Engineer

10 Ancestry.com Operations•Draper, UT

18h•Hybrid

About The Position

Join Ancestry as a Senior Software Engineer on the team behind our Family History Trees, a flagship product with massive visibility and real-world impact for millions worldwide. The team oversees cutting-edge, high-throughput systems engineered for extreme scale and near-zero downtime, enabling seamless user experiences even under heavy load. Be at the heart of everything Ancestry does. Shape the future of how people connect with their heritage and stories, directly influencing the company’s success and strategic goals. This is your opportunity to join a passionate team, solving complex, meaningful challenges on an industry-leading platform.

Requirements

BS degree in Computer Science or related field required
Proficient in Java or JVM languages with 5+ years of experience in an enterprise environment
Use Agile or other rapid application development methods
RESTful web service development
Experience with operating in and understanding AWS (preferred), Azure or GCP cloud environments (Fargate, Aurora, MSK, EC2)
You are a technical orchestrator who leverages AI tooling and agents to produce software, focusing your expertise on directing the work, reviewing the output, and ensuring architectural quality.

Nice To Haves

Experience in large sharded database environments and MySQL (Aurora)
Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or other infrastructure as code tool
Experience with SCM/DevOps tools such as GIT, Harness build and automation with Harness and CI/CD

Responsibilities

Develop, maintain and deploy backend functionality to support the evolving needs of Ancestry customers in the Ancestry Member Trees domain
Work with an accomplished and collaborative team to develop microservices that serve millions of requests per second and operate in a large cloud environment
Write code and unit tests, conduct code reviews, contribute to architecture discussions, prioritization and planning
Write and deploy Infrastructure as Code and work with DevOps to ensure that our services remain in optimal working condition
Help build the next generation of services at Ancestry
Shift from manual coding to strategic AI mentorship. You'll guide intelligent agents using precise architectural constraints and apply deep domain expertise to review machine-generated code, ensuring high reliability, performance, and minimal technical debt.