Senior Software Engineer (Backend/AWS Cloud)

1WorldSync
life insurance, paid time off, sick time, long term disability, tuition reimbursement, 401(k)
United States, Illinois, Chicago
300 South Riverside Plaza (Show on map)
Jun 03, 2025
Description Are you a back-end developer looking to make the move to a forward-thinking tech company? Do you enjoy designing quality solutions and embracing new technologies? Good news! 1WorldSync is looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Backend/AWS Cloud) to join our team in Chicago, IL. 1WorldSync is the industry leader in product content management. With approximately 550 employees across the US, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Portugal, Switzerland, and the UK, we're seeking a Senior Software Engineer to support our growing global team. Reporting directly to our Lead Software Engineer , the Senior Software Engineer will work closely with other engineers of varying disciplines (DevOps, QA, Front-End ReactJS, Full-Stack Ruby, etc), product, as well as other parts of the organization. They craft applications in Java/Kotlin, leveraging AWS, CircleCI, and Terraform. We are always looking to adopt modern technology to solve business challenges . We have a team-oriented culture, value collaboration, self-direction, and continuous improvement. We build and maintain a highly scalable platform that evolves to ever-changing business requirements. We learn from our experiences to always improve, and we have fun and celebrate our successes. As a Senior Software Engineer at 1WorldSync, responsibilities include the following: Build out features and solutions to collect, moderate, and/or deliver user-generated content to our customers Become an expert on multiple of our solutions and areas of our codebase, while understanding the larger architecture of our entire suite of solutions Participate in technical brainstorming and knowledge transfer sessions; provide technical advice at a team level and a department level Communicate across teams by collaborating with fellow engineers, product managers, UX designers, operations, and other development teams to build a holistic experience Proactively identify pain points and potential issues within our architecture and code base, and proactively tackle tech debt Contribute to each step of the product development process, from ideation and design, to planning and architecting, to building out the solution and infrastructure, to testing, to releasing, and maintenance Participate, build, and implement department CI/CD, application monitoring, security, and general developer tooling initiatives Mentor more junior engineers Other duties as assigned Required Skills and Experience: 5+ years of full-stack application development in our language stack (Kotlin, Java) and with AWS 3+ years of experience developing APIs for front-end applications 3+ years of strong experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and large data sets 1+ years of experience leveraging and maintaining CI/CD tooling (CircleCI, Drone, GitHub Actions) 1+ years of experience leveraging infrastructure as code using Terraform 1+ years of experience with event-driven development (SQS, SNS, Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub) and idempotent patterns Desired Skills and Experience: Previous experience leveraging automated database DDL (Liquibase, Flyway) Previous experience with object data stores (AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, GCP Cloud Storage) and/or document data stores (AWS DynamoDB, MongoDB, NoSQL) Previous experience building containerized applications (Docker) and deploying them to orchestration (AWS ECS, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm) Experience with source control tools such as Git Compensation: $120,000 - $130,000 base salary. This role is eligible for an annual discretionary corporate bonus. Candidates can expect salary offers that range from the minimum to the midpoint of the salary range. 1WorldSync provides full pay ranges so candidates can consider their growth potential. Benefits: Incredible health benefits (FSA and HSA options), with dental and vision coverage. 401(k) plan with employer match. Paid time off as well as company holidays, volunteer time off, sick time, bereavement leave, and 12 weeks of fully paid parental bonding leave. Short and long term disability and life insurance. Additional optional benefits, including a comprehensive legal plan, pre-tax parking and transit accounts, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, identity theft prevention, tuition reimbursement, and pet insurance. Additional Details: This is a hybrid position that requires 3 days per week at our Chicago headquarters location. This role requires the candidate to have the authority to work in, and be located in the US. 1WorldSync is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to providing employees and applicants with an environment free of discrimination and harassment.All employment decisions at 1WorldSync are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications.All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, family or parental status, veteran or disability status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) 1WorldSync will provide reasonable accommodations during the application process upon request as required to comply with applicable laws. If you have a disability and require assistance in this application process, please contact us at [emailprotected].