Senior Software Engineer

Job Title : Senior Engineer - Policy Platform

· Client location – Washington, D.C., United States (USA)

· Mandatory Skills : Java,Kotlin,Python and NodeJS

· 6+ years of exp

· Final round will be with client (Inperson)

· Hybrid role - (looking for local candidates who is willing & open to travelling to office)

· Designation - Associate Technical Architect

Job Description

As a Senior Software Engineer and technical leader, you will architect the foundational infrastructure for our data ecosystem, replacing manual stewardship with high-performance Policy-as-Code solutions. This role sits at the intersection of backend engineering and global governance, challenging you to build a scalable automation engine capable of detecting risks and enforcing protection standards across the enterprise in real-time. You will serve as a primary bridge between multidisciplinary stakeholders and the engineering organization, translating complex privacy requirements into production-grade software. Your mission is to ensure our data platform scales responsibly by engineering the intelligent tools that transform abstract policy into executable, automated code.

Roles & Responsibilities

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties:

• Lead Technical Execution: Combine hands-on coding with ownership of impactful projects while supporting and elevating other team members.
• Drive Business Impact: Solve complex business problems, work cross-functionally, and lead initiatives to improve development processes and unlock new opportunities.
• Architect High-Scale Systems: Design and maintain low-latency services that guarantee performance even when traffic scales to hundreds of thousands of requests per second.
• Ensure Reliability & Quality: Maintain critical system uptime, troubleshoot effectively, profile production applications for bottlenecks, and lead incident management.

Important aspects of the job include:

• Take initiative to address the larger technical needs of the product you work on and always keep the customer at the center of everything you do.
• Drive successful technical and business-related initiatives that improve productivity, performance, and quality.

Possess a ‘can do’ attitude, acting proactively to address technical needs rather than reacting to them.

Role Qualifications and Requirements:

• Engineering Foundation: 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer with strong programming skills in at least two server-side languages; Java, Kotlin, Python and NodeJS specific knowledge is an advantage.
• Strategic Data Governance: Expertise in implementing and enforcing governance frameworks (data catalogs, lineage, GDPR/CCPA) at an organizational level, shifting focus from simple compliance to architectural integrity and security.
• Advanced System Architecture: Proven track record of architecting complex, large-scale distributed systems. You define architectural standards and guide teams in designing observable, reliable systems capable of processing high-volume metadata across diverse assets.
• Technical Leadership: Proven experience in owning and leading technical projects, with the ability to partner with non-technical leadership (Legal, Risk) to influence strategy, negotiate complex requirements, and drive alignment on technical solutions.
• Operational Excellence: Demonstrated ability to keep critical systems up and running, with a strong grasp of reliability, troubleshooting, and incident management.
• Skills To Be Evaluated On - Java,Kotlin,Python and NodeJS,server-side languages

Job Type: Contract

Pay: $70.00 - $75.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Experience:

• governance frameworks (data catalogs, lineage, GDPR/CCPA): 2 years (Preferred)
• Kotlin: 2 years (Preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Washington, DC 20591