Software Engineer | Foster City, CA |Onsite| Contract

Software Engineer

Foster City, CA | 5 days in office

Contract Role

In this role, you will:

•       Migrate existing data infrastructure, specifically from PostgreSQL to DynamoDB (DDB)

•       Split single databases into multiple sharded databases

•       Design, deploy (using Terraform), and implement highly available and resilient systems, including adopting best practices to avoid single points of failure

•       Contribute to long term architecture, technology initiatives and technical roadmap

•       Work cross functionally with diverse engineering teams, Product and Program Management for successful delivery of solutions

•       Develop and adapt software on Kotlin and python microservices

Qualifications:

•       BS / MS in Computer Science or similar degree and/or 7+ years of relevant experience

•       Experience successfully shipping large-scale backend services/ platforms to production

•       Proficiency with Kotlin, SpringBoot, REST API design patterns, database technologies, caching mechanisms, performance optimizing techniques

•       Experience running production services using cloud infrastructure such as Kubernetes and Docker

•       Deep experience with AWS, including IAM, DynamoDB (DDB), and PostgreSQL, for multi-region deployments and high availability

Experience in transportation, robotics, logistics, or autonomous vehicles

•       Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills

Bonus Qualifications:

•       Experience with protocol buffers (protobufs) and gRPC

•     Experience with Claude Code or other LLM-based coding tools

•     Experience with Observability frameworks and tools like OpenTelemetry and Grafana