Senior Software Engineer - Enterprise Asset/IoT

Job Summary

Our Travel & Hospitality client is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their remote team! This is a full-stack engineering role, focused on building and operating platform services such as messaging systems, micro-services, data platforms, serverless runtimes, customer experiences and applying AI/ML to develop scalable and highly reliable solutions.

Core Responsibilities

• Develop APIs, automation, and tools to improve platform integration
• Build and maintain monitoring and alerting systems for services
• Collaborate with application teams to enhance reliability and performance
• Design and operate scalable systems across data centers, edge devices, and the cloud
• Work with teams to create products that improve rail network operations
• Innovate in distributed computing and drive industry transformation
• Build solutions for high-speed, large-scale predictions on distributed systems
• Solve broad challenges by designing and coding effective solutions in an agile environment
• Own architecture for large-scale, complex systems
• Make critical technical decisions balancing business needs and engineering trade-offs
• Drive cross-team alignment on technical solutions
• Establish and maintain coding and design best practices
• Serve as a subject matter expert in one or more technical domains
• Mentor and grow other engineers, including other senior engineers
• Anticipate technical risks and design systems to mitigate them

Required Skills/Experience (Must-Haves)

• 6+ years of software development or related experience
• Designing and operating large-scale distributed systems in production environments
• Platform engineering and backend infrastructure development
• Cloud-native engineering experience within AWS or similar cloud environments
• Building scalable, highly available, fault-tolerant systems
• Microservices architecture and event-driven systems
• High-volume data processing, telemetry ingestion, or streaming platforms
• API design, system interoperability, and service integration
• Reliability engineering, observability, and operational excellence practices
• Hands-on coding experience in modern programming languages (Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, Node.js, or similar)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and DevOps practices
• Strong system design and architecture capabilities
• Experience operating systems with broad enterprise impact or large user/service scale
• Ability to independently solve complex technical problems in ambiguous or greenfield environments
• Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skill

Preferred Skills/Experience (Nice-to-Haves)

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in computer science, or related field
• IoT platforms or connected device ecosystems
• Edge computing infrastructure
• Telemetry or sensor data systems
• Hardware-adjacent software engineering
• Kafka, RabbitMQ, or other messaging/event-streaming platforms
• Kubernetes, serverless, or cloud platform infrastructure
• Experience supporting platforms with thousands of services or connected assets
• AI-assisted engineering workflows using tools such as Claude or similar AI coding platforms

Not a Good Fit

• Primarily frontend/UI-focused engineers
• Candidates without distributed systems experience
• Engineers focused only on small internal business applications
• Support-only, operations-only, or non-coding backgrounds
• Candidates lacking hands-on technical depth at the senior/staff level

Key Competencies & Behaviors

• Ownership & Accountability
• Collaboration & Technical Leadership
• Innovation & Problem Solving

Work Environment

• Location: Remote in the United States

Compensation & Benefits

• Pay Range: The approximate pay range for this position is between $70.00 and $100.00. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate. Final compensation may vary based on factors including but not limited to background, knowledge, skills, and location. We comply with local wage minimums.
• Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance Plans
• Employee-Owned Profit Sharing (ESOP)
• 401K offered

This position is W-2 only. We do not work with third-party firms or C2C arrangements for this role.

About KellyMitchell

At KellyMitchell, our culture is world class. We’re movers and shakers! We don’t mind a bit of friendly competition, and we reward hard work with unlimited potential for growth. This is an exciting opportunity to join a company known for innovative solutions and unsurpassed customer service. We're passionate about helping companies solve their biggest IT staffing & project solutions challenges. As an employee-owned, women-led organization serving Fortune 500 companies nationwide, we deliver expert service at a moment's notice.

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