Ninjaone
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Senior Software Engineer, Java | SaaS Backup

Pay
$150,000 – $220,000 per year
Location
United States
Listed
Today

About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer on the NinjaOne team, you will contribute to our IT Operations product suite, designing and implementing scalable new solutions and product improvements. Providing clean and optimized coding solutions, you'll work to develop high quality software applications that exceed our customers' expectations - seriously our customers love our products.

We're currently hiring Senior Software Engineers with a strong background in scalable backend development to join our global product engineering team. This is an exciting opportunity to work on our data backup and recovery platform, a core part of our SaaS backup offering. In this role, you'll focus on delivering robust features across backup, archive, restore, and download services used by our partners worldwide.

You'll be collaborating closely with our highly skilled Software Engineers, Data Engineer and Technical Leads, who are located in the USA and Asia, contributing to new feature development, product enhancements, and ongoing support for our production systems. We are engineers, technology leaders and experts.

We create and deliver mission critical services to enable NinjaOne's customers to administer, protect and maintain millions of endpoints and servers. You will have the opportunity to design and develop high-availability mission critical software systems that support our worldwide operations.

Location - We are flexible on remote working from home, if you are located in the USA and reside in one of the following states - CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, *IL, KS, MA, MD, ME, NJ, NC, NY, OH, OR, TN, TX, VA, and WA. We have physical offices in Austin, TX and Tampa, FL, if you prefer a hybrid option.

*Onsite interviews may be required for this role.

We hire the best software engineers, but experience in our stack can't hurt: NinjaOne is built on Java, Kotlin, C++, Golang and Postgres; supporting millions of user endpoints and running as a scalable cloud service in AWS. Knowing large-scale datastore bottlenecks, asynchronous application design and client-server architecture will help you.

What You'll be Doing

  • Java and Kotlin Software Development- use your expertise to contribute to the development of large-scale software applications. Make quality an invariant part of your work and help your fellow engineers continue to meet our quality-first standards.
  • Collaborating with the engineering team in USA and Asia (Singapore and Indonesia) - work with scrum teams that are located in multiple geographies to drive the product roadmap. Owning design and architecture by working closely with the NinjaOne technology leadership team in the USA and mentor the global team to adhere and implement scalable solutions.
  • Committing Code and Shipping Products - you will be one of our most trusted engineers committing code. Responsible for implementing design patterns and working on enterprise level software challenges, in a startup environment. Impact product more hands on than at other companies, building software of scale that runs on millions and millions of endpoints.
  • Willingness to travel to Singapore and Idonesia and take occasional after hours calls.

About You

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent work experience.
  • 10+ years experience in Java software development for product applications or equivalent. Solid expertise in Kotlin will make you a standout candidate.
  • Experience in C# and Ruby will be plus
  • 4 + years experience working with highly scalable software systems.
  • Experience working on systems at scale and finding solutions to scale systems.
  • Working knowledge of a breadth of OOP design principles.
  • Expertise in scaling data structures and object-oriented design.
  • Knowledge of API best practices and REST service development using frameworks like Jersey or Spring.
  • Relational Database design and development experience. Experience with Big Data, SQL Tuning and ETL will be a huge plus
  • Caching systems expertise and experience with Redis will make you a stand-out.
  • Experience with Kafka and data streaming will be a huge plus
  • Expert knowledge of quality testing practices.
  • Knowledge of Operating systems like Linux and Windows
  • Good interpersonal skills, oral and written skills, with the ability to present ideas
  • Values that are aligned with us being a team of experts, problem solvers and collaborators, who are highly customer focused, dependable and trustworthy
  • Working experience with Global teams located in different time zones will be a huge plus
  • High Adaptability with rapid changes

What You'll Love

  • We are a collaborative, kind, and curious community.
  • We honor your flexibility needs with full-time work that is hybrid remote.

Pay and benefits

We have you covered with our comprehensive benefits package, which includes medical, dental, and vision insurance.

We help you prepare for your financial future with our 401(k) plan.

We prioritize your work-life balance with our unlimited PTO.

We reward your work with opportunity for growth and advancement.

Additional Information

This position is NOT eligible for Visa sponsorship. *Due to operational policies, NinjaOne is unable to hire for this role within the city limits of Chicago. We will consider all qualified candidates who reside outside of the city proper or are willing to self-relocate.

Starting pay for the successful applicant depends on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to location, market demands, experience, job-related knowledge, and skills. The benefits available for this position include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) plan, life insurance coverage and PTO. This position may also be eligible for bonus, commission, equity, or other incentive compensation, as applicable.

Base salary hiring range for roles based in California, Colorado, Maryland, New Jersey, or Washington $150,000 - $220,000 USD

Base salary hiring rang for roles based in New York $150,000 - $220,000 USD

About us

NinjaOne unifies IT to simplify work for nearly 40,000 customers in 140+ countries

The NinjaOne Unified IT Operations Platform delivers endpoint management, autonomous patching, backup, and remote access in a single console to improve efficiency, increase resilience, and reduce spend. By automating IT and managing all endpoints, organizations give employees a great technology experience at work.

NinjaOne is obsessed with customer success and has retained a 98% customer satisfaction score for more than 5 years.

Read the original posting

From Ninjaone's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on November 12, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

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