Senior Software Engineer I

Company SummaryFirst American (India) is a GCC (Global Capability Center) of the First American Financial Corporation (NYSE: FAF) family of companies. FAI is a proud member of the FORTUNE 500 companies and has been amongst the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list for eight consecutive years. First American Financial Corporation provides comprehensive title insurance, closing/settlement, property data and technology solutions. First American (India) creates quality solutions for its customers by combining software, back office, and knowledge processing operations to fulfill First American's business requirements. Our priorities are our employees, customers, and shareholders - in that order. First American (India) has been ranked amongst India's Best Companies To Work For™ 2023: Listed amongst the Top 100 by Great Place To Work® India, FAI is also certified Best Workplaces for Women and Workplace with Inclusive Practices. Software Services helps build First American's product suite that encompasses the best in class Title Insurance, Settlement and Mortgage solutions platforms. Leverages technology product stack across Microsoft platform predominantly to develop, enhance and maintain the best in class applications. The R & D division delivers solutions for the title insurance industry leveraging the best of NLP, AI and ML.
Job SummaryRole Summary
The Senior Software Engineer I is a hands-on project contributor who owns the design and delivery of significant features and small-to-medium projects. The role translates business needs into reliable, secure and maintainable solutions, makes sound technical decisions under ambiguity, and helps raise the team's engineering and operational standards.
Key Responsibilities
Lead features or small-to-medium projects from requirements and design through implementation, release and production support.
Break down ambiguous requirements, evaluate technical trade-offs, and communicate assumptions, risks and recommendations clearly.
Design, develop and review clean, secure, tested and maintainable software that meets First American engineering standards.
Embed reliability, performance, security, observability, error handling and recovery considerations into solutions.
Partner with product, quality, architecture, platform and other engineering teams to resolve dependencies and delivery blockers.
Mentor engineers through code reviews, debugging, design discussions and knowledge sharing.
Participate in on-call support, incident response and root-cause analysis, ensuring learnings result in durable improvements.
Use AI-assisted development tools for design, coding, testing, documentation, debugging and analysis while rigorously validating outputs.
Competencies
Project ownership: Drives work end-to-end and follows through from design to measurable production outcomes.
Technical judgment: Makes pragmatic decisions under uncertainty and balances simplicity, speed, quality, security and maintainability.
Operational excellence: Builds reliable, observable and supportable solutions and addresses root causes rather than symptoms.
Communication and collaboration: Communicates clearly, coordinates across teams and leads with expertise rather than ego.
Mentoring and teamwork: Unblocks teammates, provides thoughtful feedback and helps raise the team's technical bar.
Autonomy, curiosity and scrappiness: Takes initiative, explores alternatives, challenges inefficiency respectfully and escalates risks early.
Technical Skills
An ideal candidate should have strong hands-on experience with:
.NET / ASP.NET Core, C# and RESTful APIs
React, TypeScript and modern front-end development
AWS services and cloud-native application development
PostgreSQL and/or DynamoDB, including data modelling and performance considerations
Microservices, distributed-system concepts and resilient integration patterns
Git, CI/CD, automated testing, code review and secure development practices
Agile/Scrum delivery using tools such as Jira
AI coding tools such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot or Claude Code
Preferred: Python, Node.js, OpenAPI/Swagger, infrastructure as code, observability platforms and experience with production support or SLOs.
Education and Experience
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a related discipline; equivalent practical experience may be considered.
Typically 4+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including independent ownership of production features or projects.
FAI is committed to create an environment that respects, supports and inspires all individuals. We do not discriminate on the basis of color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation and age. At FAI, we celebrate diversity and believe that an inclusive workforce benefits employees, the organization and our community. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. For more information about our company and dedication to putting People First, check out https://firstam.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/faicareers.