Senior Software Engineer

Job Purpose

The Senior Software Engineer is a core technical contributor within IMS, responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing software solutions that power our telematics, mobility, and insurance technology. As a key member of an agile development team, this role involves collaborating with product managers, engineers, and business stakeholders to build scalable, high performance applications that drive value for our customers.

This position is ideal for an experienced engineer who thrives in a fast paced environment, proactively takes ownership, enjoys solving complex technical challenges, and is passionate about delivering high quality, maintainable software solutions.

Key Responsibilities Software Development & System Design

• Design, develop,beleid, test, implement, and deploy new software solutions, ensuring efficiency, scalability, and security.
• Maintain and improve existing software, refactoring and optimizing systems to enhance performance.
• Work with event driven, serverless architectures, ensuring scalability, high availability, and fault tolerance.
• Develop and integrate APIs and data pipelines, working with structured and unstructured database technologies.
• Implement best practices in software engineering, including code reviews, automated testing, and CI/CD processes.

Agile Collaboration & Delivery

• Work closely with cross functional teams, including Product, Platform Engineering, QA, and UX, to ensure seamless development and deployment.
• Deliver features and improvements within forecasted timelines, and be comfortable with Scrum or Kanban methodologies.
• Engage in team retrospectives, suggesting improvements to development workflows and processes.
• Assist product teams in backlog preparation, ensuring requirements are well defined and aligned with business objectives.

Technical Leadership & Mentorship

• Mentor and guide junior and mid level engineers, promoting best practices and knowledge sharing.
• Lead discussions on architectural decisions, ensuring alignment with industry standards and IMS's long term vision.
• Work with IMS's engineering community to share knowledge, drive technical excellence, and establish engineering standards.

Continuous Improvement & Innovation

• Advocate for modern software development techniques, including serverless computing, event driven architectures, and AI driven analytics.
• Drive innovation by evaluating and recommending new tools, technologies, and frameworks.
• Ensure platform reliability and scalability, proactively identifying performance bottlenecks and technical debt.

Security, Compliance & Observability

• Ensure security best practices are integrated into software development, adhering to GDPR, CCPA, and industry security standards.
• Improve system observability, integrating logging, monitoring, and tracing solutions (CloudWatch, New Relic).
• Develop and implement DevSecOps practices, ensuring secure and compliant infrastructure.

Essential Qualifications & Experience

• 5+ years of experience in software development, with expertise in backend or full stack development.
• Strong proficiency in Python.
• Experience building highly available, event driven, service oriented architectures.
• Hands on experience of AWS Serverless technologies such as Lambda, DynamoDB, and Step Functions.
• Experience with DevOps practices, such as CI/CD and 重度 infrastructure automation (GitLab).
• Proficiency with IaC tooling (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• A focus on taking ownership and prioritizing delivery without compromising quality.
• Strong understanding of software development principles, coûts testing, and debugging.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, coach in technical excellence, and drive engineering best practices.
• A problem solving mindset with the ability to balance trade offs in cost, performance, and scalability.

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience working with .NET.
• Experience working with large scale data processing and real time analytics platforms.
• Experience working with containerization wg Docker, ECS.
• Prior experience in telematics, mobility, or insurance related software solutions.
• AWS Certifications.

Other Contextual Information

• Occasional travel to both IMS offices and client sites may be required.