Senior Software Engineer, Applications

Job description

The Senior Software Engineer is a technical pillar and a force multiplier within the organization. In this role, you move beyond the execution of features to owning the architectural integrity, long-term scalability, and strategic technical direction of entire domains. You are expected to operate with near-total autonomy, leading complex cross-functional initiatives and solving systemic issues that impact the broader engineering team. ### What You'll Do - **Technical Leadership & Architectural Excellence:** Own the end-to-end development of medium-to-large features and systems, ensuring they scale over quarters and years. - Demonstrate deep architectural thinking by designing and documenting system interactions that prioritize long-term maintainability. - Propose and drive technical direction at the team level, identifying and reducing systemic issues such as scalability bottlenecks and developer productivity hurdles. - Make visible improvements to system performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency within your owned domains. - **Execution & Project Delivery:** Lead the technical design, implementation, and delivery of complex systems and cross-functional initiatives with minimal oversight. - Partner with Product Managers to establish realistic timelines and priorities, navigate feature trade-offs, and balance immediate business needs with long-term technical health. - Consistently meet all published quarterly velocity and quality goals while maintaining high deployment standards. - **AI-native Product Development:** Design AI-friendly APIs, layer MCPs on top, and build the next generation of agentic workflows for accounting and finance in your domain. - Drive the team's adoption of agent-first development workflow to design and deliver robust & scalable solutions - **Mentorship:** Consistently mentor 1–2 engineers regularly and provide guidance to multiple peers across the team. - Act as a "go-to" engineer within your subdomain, proactively raising and solving team-level technical problems. - Regularly provide constructive feedback to improve the performance of others and unblock peers to maintain team momentum. - Influence hiring, onboarding, and overall team culture. Contribute to the broader engineering community by writing for the FloQast engineering blog. - Any other tasks that may be assigned to help the company meet its goals ### What You'll Bring - 5+ years of professional software development experience - Great understanding of JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, and Scripting - Great understanding of Java/Go, Python, and Scripting - Proficiency and work experience with Node, MongoDB, AWS, React/Redux, or other MERN-style stacks or equivalent technologies - Recognizes the importance of testing, code quality, and demonstrates craftsmanship in every project they take on - Able to produce effective solutions independently within a highly collaborative agile environment. - Proficiency and work experience with MongoDB, AWS, Springboot, or equivalent technologies - Recognizes the importance of testing, code quality, and demonstrates craftsmanship in every project they take on - Able to produce effective solutions independently within a highly collaborative agile environment. ### Our Interview Process - The evaluation process involves a multi-stage assessment comprising a **coding exercise**, a **structured code review**, **system design** and a **behavioral assessment** to evaluate your engineering approach, logical thinking, familiarity with best practices, and alignment with team values.