Senior Software Engineer – Architecture, Innovation

Avaya

. Own a subsystem from design through production, including technical direction, implementation, interfaces, testing, operational readiness, and ongoing improvement .

Posted 11/10/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSenior💰 $179,127 - $234,100 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in backend engineering, with a strong focus on system design, implementation, and integration of production software. Proficient in utilizing AI coding agents and automated testing to ensure high-quality, reliable software delivery.

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Backend Engineering SkillsProduction Software OwnershipAI Coding Agents ExperienceAutomated Testing and DeploymentDistributed Systems Reasoning

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Hard Skills

GoRustNode.jsTypeScriptJavaAPIsAsynchronous MessagingData StorageAutomated TestingPerformance Analysis

Soft Skills

Clear CommunicationIndependent Problem SolvingCollaboration

Tools & Technologies

KafkaNATSRabbitMQObservability ToolsDeployment Tools

Certifications & Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Experience

Industry Keywords

TelecommunicationsReal-Time ApplicationsProduction DevelopmentEvent-Driven SystemsCompatibility Preservation

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsJavaJavaScriptKafkaNode.jsRabbitMQRustTypeScriptGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own a subsystem from design through production, including technical direction, implementation, interfaces, testing, operational readiness, and ongoing improvement
Translate product goals into clear designs and achievable delivery plans
Define interfaces and data flows, explain tradeoffs, identify dependencies, and raise risks and blockers early
Personally implement critical functionality and resolve difficult technical problems across backend services, APIs, messaging, data, and relevant user-facing components
Establish integration contracts with adjacent systems, addressing compatibility and failure behavior
Use AI coding agents for substantial engineering work and verify results through tests, measurements, and targeted code review
Build quality through security, performance, resilience, maintainability, automated tests, and realistic failure-scenario validation
Carry work through release and production use, establishing observability and safe rollout and rollback practices
Investigate failures and follow through on improvements
Collaborate with product, engineering, and operations partners
Document decisions, share knowledge, review code, and help others contribute to and support the subsystem

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of relevant software engineering experience
Demonstrated technical depth and end-to-end ownership of production software
Ownership of a substantial production service, subsystem, or product capability, with personal contributions to design, implementation, integration, and ongoing improvement
Strong backend engineering skills in at least one production language, such as Go, Rust, Node.js with TypeScript, Java, or a comparable language
Ability to reason about distributed systems, concurrency, state, APIs, asynchronous messaging, data storage, and failure handling
Experience with automated testing, deployment, observability, performance analysis, and production troubleshooting
Practical use of AI coding agents for substantial engineering work, with ability to explain decisions, identify mistakes, and establish confidence in results
Ability to work independently through ambiguity, learn unfamiliar technologies, and coordinate technical decisions and delivery dependencies across teams
Clear communication and ability to move between system design and implementation details
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
Preferred: production development in Go or Rust
Preferred: event-driven systems and messaging platforms such as Kafka, NATS, RabbitMQ, or comparable technologies
Preferred: modernizing existing services while preserving compatibility and customer behavior
Preferred: contact center, telecommunications, or other real-time applications with demanding reliability and latency requirements
Preferred: delivery across backend services and modern frontend applications
Preferred: production AI integrations involving tool use, retrieval, orchestration, or evaluations
Must be currently authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship now or in the future

Benefits

Comp & perks

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