Senior Software Engineer

About the role

Capgemini Engineering is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join its global R&D and engineering services team. You will work on backend systems that support a variety of innovative projects, from autonomous vehicles to life‑saving robots, and help the team tackle lower‑priority engineering tasks while ensuring high performance and reliability.

Key responsibilities

• Take on lower‑priority engineering work such as compliance, maintenance, cost‑savings, observability, experiment clean‑up and operational tooling.
• Design, build and maintain scalable, performant and reliable software systems.
• Contribute to system architecture and technical design, validating solutions through data and experimentation.
• Participate in code and design reviews and collaborate with engineers, product managers, data scientists and designers.
• Clarify requirements and perform mid‑level design work, focusing on coding, testing and documentation.

Required profile

• 3–5 years of professional backend‑focused software development experience.
• Strong English communication and collaboration skills.

Required skills

• Java and/or Kotlin.
• MongoDB Atlas or similar modern NoSQL database.
• Aurora MySQL on AWS or similar relational database.
• Spring Boot.
• GraphQL API development (Netflix DGS).
• Cloud‑native distributed systems on AWS.
• Experience building and operating large‑scale, high‑performance, resilient systems.