Senior software engineer
Pubblicato il 04-08-2026 - Akamas in Italia
We're redefining performance engineering with AI - join us Akamas is a software platform that reshapes IT performance optimization through AI, automation, and the domain expertise we've developed by working with some of the most demanding enterprise customers across the world, achieving unprecedented levels of performance, efficiency, and cost savings. About the role We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to contribute to the development of our core back-end systems that drive automated optimization of our customer applications. You will contribute to building high-scale microservice architectures that will completely automate observability, testing, and tuning of modern software stacks through the use of AI. The ideal candidate has working experience in designing and building modern web applications by leveraging different frameworks and patterns such as Microservices, Serverless, REST APIs, SQL, and No-SQL databases. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and develop core product features and innovations. You will contribute to architectural decisions, code reviews,
and backlog refinement activities. You will work closely with the product management team to evaluate and estimate design decisions and lead implementation activities. We believe that reducing the gap between customers and developers leads to a better understanding of user problems and, ultimately, better solutions. For this reason, you are expected to interact with end users in feedback or support sessions. What you'll do As a Senior Software Engineer, you are expected to have an impact on our product evolution both as an individual contributor and as a software architect by: Leading design and implementation of core product features, taking into consideration aspects such as reliability, scalability, and security Managing the feature lifecycle from roadmap to delivery, contributing in all stages, and providing feedback on the whole process Writing and reviewing code to evolve team stan