Job Description, Responsibilities & Requirements
About the Position
Senior Software Engineer Fullstack
Bengaluru, India
Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human
Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.
This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk.
Responsibilities
We are seeking an independent Senior Software Engineer who effectively balances technical excellence with a disciplined approach to the software development lifecycle.
- Design, build, and evolve intelligent marketing technology solutions that integrate Salesforce CRM with AWS services and modern generative AI capabilities.
- Architect and develop AI-powered experiences using Amazon Bedrock, LangChain, and modern LLM integration patterns to create context-aware, scalable, and mature solutions.
- Build robust backend services and integrations to support MarTech workflows, including LLM orchestration, prompt workflows, RAG pipelines, and other generative AI features.
- Lead the design and delivery of complex marketing technology initiatives from technical discovery through production deployment, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Develop and refine prompt engineering strategies, grounding approaches, and AI interaction patterns that improve the quality, relevance, and safety of marketing technology AI experiences.
- Design and implement resilient APIs, event-driven integrations, and backend services that connect Salesforce, AWS platforms, internal systems, and external applications.
- Drive engineering excellence through strong CI/CD practices, using GitHub, Gearset, and deployment automation to support reliable and efficient releases.
- Champion observability, operational excellence, and production support practices to ensure enterprise-grade reliability, performance, and supportability of marketing technology systems and AI services.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through technical guidance, code reviews, design reviews, and hands-on collaboration, raising the bar on engineering quality across the team.
- Lead technical decision-making across architecture, integration design, AI/ML tooling, scalability, security, and long-term platform evolution.
- Partner closely with product managers, designers, architects, security, data, and infrastructure teams to ensure solutions are aligned, secure, reliable, and enterprise-ready.
- Collaborate effectively in a Scrum-based Agile environment, using Jira and Confluence to drive execution, document decisions, and maintain delivery transparency.
- Evaluate emerging AI/ML technologies, frameworks, and engineering patterns, and apply them pragmatically to improve customer experience and operational efficiency.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years in marketing technology platforms, enterprise integrations, or CRM-driven systems.
- Strong expertise in backend and application development using Python or Java, JavaScript or TypeScript, with the ability to build production-grade, scalable software systems.
- Strong experience designing and building cloud-native solutions on AWS, including services such as Lambda, S3, RDS, API Gateway, and CloudWatch, with a focus on scalability, resilience, and security.
- Proven experience integrating LLMs and generative AI capabilities into production-ready applications, ideally using Amazon Bedrock, LangChain, or similar frameworks.
- Experience building AI-powered backend services such as prompt orchestration layers, RAG workflows, retrieval pipelines, or other intelligent application patterns.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including distributed systems design, API development, testing strategies, code quality, and maintainable architecture.
- Experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines, source control workflows, and automated deployments using tools such as GitHub and Gearset.
- Ability to lead architecture discussions, influence technical strategy, and make sound engineering decisions across multiple systems and stakeholders.
- Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers and helping teams improve engineering practices, technical quality, and delivery maturity.
- Strong working knowledge of Agile/Scrum delivery models, and experience partnering across product, engineering, and business teams in sprint-based execution.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Nice to Have
- Deep hands-on experience with Salesforce architecture and development, including Apex, Lightning, Flow, APIs, and data models, with a strong understanding of enterprise CRM workflows.
- Experience with advanced prompt engineering, evaluation strategies, and optimization techniques for marketing technology AI applications.
- Familiarity with vector databases, embeddings, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures.
- Experience with LangGraph, LangSmith, agentic workflows, or related frameworks for orchestrating more advanced AI application behavior.
- Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Exposure to advanced AWS services such as SageMaker, AppConfig, or event-driven architectures.
- Track record of leading cross-functional technical initiatives or delivering large-scale platform improvements.
We Offer
- Lead innovation at the intersection of enterprise marketing technology platforms and cutting-edge AI technology.
- Build intelligent, marketing technology solutions that have direct business impact and improve the overall marketing technology.
- Shape technical direction for AI-enabled capabilities across Salesforce, AWS, and modern integration platforms.
- Work with a team that values engineering excellence, collaboration, and thoughtful adoption of emerging technologies.
- Mentor engineers, influence architectural decisions, and play a key role in the evolution of our marketing technology platform.
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The foundation for secure connections between people and technology
Okta is the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise. The Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the right people to the right technologies at the right time. With over 7,000 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure providers, Okta customers can easily and securely use the best technologies for their business. More than 19,300 organizations, including JetBlue, Nordstrom, Slack, T-Mobile, Takeda, Teach for America, and Twilio, trust Okta to help protect the identities of their workforces and customers.