Software Engineer II

FAI

7d•Remote

About The Position

The Senior Software Engineer II — Full Stack will work with the Engineering Manager, Architect, Product Manager, and team to understand stakeholder needs, own a domain or technical system over the long term, and autonomously deliver business impact through larger initiatives. The role designs, develops, tests, and enhances typically web-based applications according to established coding standards, using a continuous Build-Integrate-Test approach in an Agile environment. The role serves as a recognized domain technical authority, applying business knowledge and strong engineering practices to improve functionality, performance, reliability, and maintainability while shaping technical direction and elevating team outcomes. The position is remote in India and is part of First American (India), whose Software Services group builds and maintains title insurance, settlement, and mortgage solutions, primarily on Microsoft technology platforms.

Requirements

5–8 years of hands-on software development experience, including technical leadership on production systems and sustained ownership of domain or multi-component initiatives.
Graduate or postgraduate degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
Hands-on experience with C# (.NET Core and .NET Framework), TypeScript, NestJS, and Node.js.
Experience with microservices and event-driven architecture using Apache Kafka or other event-processing services.
Experience with React.js or Angular.
Experience with cloud platforms; AWS is preferred, including services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, EFS, ECS, EKS, API Gateway, SQS, IAM, and VPC.
Experience with relational databases such as MS SQL Server and PostgreSQL, and NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB and DocumentDB.
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
Experience with CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, YAML, and PowerShell.
Experience with observability tools such as Splunk, ELK Stack, and DataDog.
Knowledge of unit testing, Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), and Test-Driven Development (TDD).
Experience with RESTful APIs, OpenAPI/Swagger, API design, and API versioning.
Experience with Git-based source-code management, branching strategies, and code review leadership.
Experience with Jira and Agile/Scrum practices.
Excellent verbal, written, interpersonal, and stakeholder-management skills.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of Python.
Knowledge of data analytics tools such as Databricks.
AWS or Azure Developer certification.

Responsibilities

Autonomously deliver business impact by leading larger, multi-quarter initiatives across the full software development lifecycle, from design through launch and rollout.
Own a domain or technical system long-term, act as a domain expert, and drive customer impact through technical direction and durable improvements.
Make independent technical decisions under open-ended requirements and partner with the Architect and Product Manager on roadmaps, trade-offs, and solutions.
Partner with the Engineering Manager, Architect, and Product Manager on long-term goals; redirect work toward measurable outcomes when it is not creating impact.
Lead one or two important projects concurrently, divide work for independent execution, and proactively anticipate risks.
Define and maintain project plans, milestones, acceptance criteria, and measurable outcomes for larger initiatives.
Define domain-level standards, patterns, and operational practices; address technical debt, toil, and security issues across team-owned systems.
Lead code reviews that coach others and improve review culture; simplify systems and build tools or documentation adopted by others.
Design architecture and infrastructure patterns for the team, make spike and MVP decisions, and guide trade-offs involving scale, reliability, simplicity, and cost.
Drive production issue response and post-mortems; define and monitor SLAs/SLOs where applicable and implement durable operational fixes, including scale improvements.
Plan for the evolution of production infrastructure, integrations, and cross-system dependencies across the domain.
Coordinate across teams and communicate with stakeholders; eliminate systemic toil and simplify systems at the domain level.
Mentor engineers across teams, contribute to hiring, and partner with the Engineering Manager on team culture and psychological safety.
Improve how the team measures, communicates, and delivers customer impact; challenge inefficiency and drive continuous improvement.
Use AI tools and agentic coding assistants effectively and guide adoption of practical patterns across the team and domain.