Job Title: Senior Software Engineer (Backend)
Key Skills: Java, AWS, DevOps, RESTful APIs
Location: Brazil
Mode: Remote
We at Coforge are hiring Senior Software Engineer (Backend) with the following skill set.
Key Responsibilities
- Independently design, implement, and maintain complex modules of our processing and streaming services; apply algorithms and profiling to optimize performance and memory use.
- Own assigned deliverables end to end: clarify requirements, make implementation decisions, and follow through on testing, deployment, and support.
- Build and operate AWS services across regions using ECS, S3, Amazon Dynamo DB, SQS, AWS Elastic Cache, Lambda, and CloudFront.
- Investigate performance, concurrency, and reliability issues in production, perform root-cause analysis, and implement lasting fixes.
- Participate in architecture and design discussions with architects and client-rendering teams, assess trade-offs, and implement designs aligned with agreed technical direction.
- Improve test coverage, observability, deployment automation, and code quality; contribute code reviews and use IQ BOT thoughtfully to improve engineering productivity.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- Hands-on professional software development experience building, shipping, and operating production backend services.
- Strong production experience with Java Standard Edition, including object-oriented design, concurrency, performance optimization, and troubleshooting.
- Hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure, particularly ECS and EC2, and strong DevOps fundamentals including CD, IaC, and multi-environment deployment.
- Strong algorithms, data structure, and mathematics skills, with the ability to reason about complexity, memory use, and performance trade-offs.
- Experience building and troubleshooting high-traffic distributed systems, including RESTful APIs, data formats such as JSON or Protocol Buffers, and observability practices such as logging, metrics, and tracing.
Preferred Skills
- Experience with observability tooling such as Dynatrace, GRAFANA, or Digital AnalyticsSplunk.
- Understanding of network protocols such as HTTP/2 and WebSockets and their impact on streaming performance.
- Experience with IaC such as Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines such as CI/CT - Jenkins.
- Experience with content Delivery Network, global data distribution, containerization, or orchestration technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes.
Posted On: 3-11-2026
At Coforge, we hire professionals based solely on their skills and do not discriminate based on age, disability, religion, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or nationality.
Skills Required
- Professional experience building, shipping, and operating production backend services
- Strong production experience with Java Standard Edition, object-oriented design, concurrency, performance optimization, and troubleshooting
- Hands-on AWS infrastructure experience, particularly ECS and EC2
- Strong DevOps fundamentals, including continuous delivery, infrastructure as code, and multi-environment deployment
- Strong algorithms, data structures, and mathematics skills
- Experience building and troubleshooting high-traffic distributed systems
- Experience with RESTful APIs, JSON or Protocol Buffers, and observability practices including logging, metrics, and tracing
- Experience with observability tools such as Dynatrace, Grafana, or Splunk
- Understanding of HTTP/2 and WebSockets and their impact on streaming performance
- Experience with Terraform and CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins
- Experience with content delivery networks, global data distribution, Docker, or Kubernetes
Encora Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Encora and has not been reviewed or approved by Encora.
-
Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as employer-provided in multiple locations, with private plans and family coverage highlighted in Spain and Mexico. Medical insurance quality is presented as a recurring bright spot alongside standard coverage.
-
Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off includes paid holidays and PTO, with regional materials indicating additional leave provisions in certain countries. Leave is generally portrayed as conventional to generous depending on location.
-
Flexible Benefits — Work-from-home flexibility is frequently highlighted as a plus, though it varies by role and client needs. Remote and hybrid options are positioned as part of the overall package.
Encora Insights
What We Do
Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and backed by renowned private equity firms Advent International and Warburg Pincus, Encora is the preferred technology modernization and innovation partner to some of the world’s leading enterprise companies. It provides award-winning digital engineering services including Product Engineering & Development, Cloud Services, Quality Engineering, DevSecOps, Data & Analytics, Digital Experience, Cybersecurity, and AI & LLM Engineering. Encora's deep cluster vertical capabilities extend across diverse industries, including HiTech, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Retail & CPG, Energy & Utilities, Banking Financial Services & Insurance, Travel, Hospitality & Logistics, Telecom & Media, Automotive, and other specialized industries. With over 9,000 associates in 47+ offices and delivery centers across the U.S., Canada, Latin America, Europe, India, and Southeast Asia, Encora delivers nearshore agility to clients anywhere in the world, coupled with expertise at scale in India. Encora’s Cloud-first, Data-first, AI-first approach enables clients to create differentiated enterprise value through technology
