Software Engineer

Summary

Join Acquia's AI Services team as a Software Engineer and contribute to building applications and APIs around AI. This remote India-based role requires collaborating with the engineering team, participating in RFC reviews, and contributing to coding, PR reviews, documentation, and automated tests. You will ensure compliance with best practices, participate in experimentation and prototyping, and contribute to core architectural platforms. The ideal candidate possesses 3+ years of relevant experience with Python, Java, SQL, REST APIs, Git, and cloud platforms. Acquia offers competitive benefits, including healthcare coverage, wellness programs, and paid time off.

Requirements

• 3+ years of relevant experience
• Experience working with Python , Java and SQL
• Experience working with artificial intelligence
• Experience writing and consuming REST APIs
• Experience with Git
• Experience working with any cloud platform AWS/ Azure/ GCP
• Experience working with CI/CD tools (i.e. Jenkins)
• Experience writing automated tests
• Ability to learn and adapt to new technologies quickly and become productive in their use
• Working knowledge of software design principles and programming languages and frameworks in use
• Strong knowledge of software development security principles, concepts and best practices
• Strong understanding of software architecture and the tradeoffs between different architectural patterns

Responsibilities

• Work with the Engineering Team to understand and refine product requirements
• Participate in RFC reviews - ask questions and provide feedback proactively
• Contribute in coding , PR reviews , documentation, and automated tests that deliver on Sprint goals
• Ensure compliance requirements, CICD , coding, operations, security best practices are followed
• Participate in experimentation and prototype building in a collaborative environment, iterating on concepts based on feedback
• Contribute as needed to the core architectural platform and libraries used by all teams in the interest of the stability, robustness, cost effectiveness, and performance of consuming applications and services
• Encourage a culture of observability by ensuring logging and monitoring of applications and services is being configured appropriately to provide visibility into system performance consistent with SLIs/SLOs/SLAs and enable effective troubleshooting
• Address security vulnerabilities as needed
• Work with your team to understand and implement R&D Standards
• Participate in team meetings, pair programming, lunch 'n learns, etc. as needed
• Collaborate with the architecture team to ensure the platform we are building is consistent with the overarching architectural goals at Acquia
• Ensure software systems comply with contractual RTO and RPO requirements

Preferred Qualifications

• Are a continuous learner who is able learn through online trainings, books and podcasts as the AI landscape is rapidly evolving
• Are comfortable with ambiguity and working in a fast-paced environment
• Balance critical thinking with creative problem-solving
• Make informed decisions, balancing quantitative and qualitative reasoning
• Have the ability to drive desired customer outcomes by learning and understanding the problems being solved
• Experience working with Snowflake
• Experience managing applications in a kubernetes environment
• Experience writing SaaS applications in a distributed microservice ecosystem
• Experience working with Elasticsearch or other NoSQL data stores
• Experience with PHP and Drupal
• Experience working with Gradle
• Nice to have experience in RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)

Benefits

• Competitive healthcare coverage
• Wellness programs
• Take it when you need it time off
• Parental leave
• Recognition programs