Backend Software Engineer

About the Role

We are seeking a talented Software Engineer to join our on-site team in Garden City, NY. The ideal candidate has strong backend development experience, C#/.Net preferred, and is comfortable working with modern cloud platforms. You will play a key role in building, integrating, and optimizing our flagship site search product, HawkSearch, with a focus on scalability, reliability, and performance.

This position is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys solving complex problems, working independently and in a collaborative environment, and has a strong interest in search technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain API-first backend services using C#
• Work closely with product and engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable, and efficient solutions.
• Design new features to work with AWS services in a cost-effective, automated and scalable manner.
• Support ecommerce platform integrations.
• Collaborate with the infrastructure team on deployments, monitoring, and performance tuning.
• Contribute to technical design discussions and help drive architectural decisions.
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in backend development, C# preferred
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred, GCP and Azure also accepted).
• Strong understanding of APIs, microservices, and integration patterns.
• Solid knowledge of relational databases and/or NoSQL databases.
• Ability to work on-site in Garden City, NY.

Preferred / Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience with search technologies
  such as: Lucene, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Algolia, Coveo, SearchSpring, Klevu, Bloomreach.
• Familiarity with ecommerce systems such as: BigCommerce, Optimizely Configured Commerce, Shopify, Magento/Adobe Commerce, WooCommerce, Shopware, Unilog.
• Experience with LLM technology – model selection, prompt engineering, tuning, MCP.
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills.
• Familiarity with JIRA & Confluence.
• Salesforce experience is a plus.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Collaborative, growth-oriented work environment.
• Opportunity to work with modern technologies and contribute to impactful projects.