Senior Software Engineer

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 SummarySSEI – Full Stack
(Exp: 5 years onwards)
React / Next.js / NestJS / AWS / AI-Assisted Engineering
About the Role
We are looking for a Full Stack Software Engineer with strong frontend, backend, and cloud engineering skills to build scalable, secure, production-grade applications.
Our teams follow a standardized Golden Path and extensively use AI-assisted development tools such as Claude, Cursor, and Codex throughout the software development lifecycle. You will work across frontend, backend, APIs, event-driven services, testing, observability, and AI integrations while maintaining strong engineering standards for quality, security, and production readiness.
Required Skills
Strong hands-on experience with React, Next.js, and TypeScript
Proficiency in Node.js, TypeScript, and NestJS
Experience with PostgreSQL and TypeORM
Experience building REST APIs and working with OpenAPI/Swagger
Experience with event-driven architecture using AWS SQS and SNS
Experience with Microsoft Graph API, particularly email and related integrations
Strong understanding of microservices and distributed systems
Experience with OpenTelemetry and UVP for observability, distributed tracing, and production troubleshooting
Strong testing experience using Jest and Playwright
Strong knowledge of Git, pull requests, and code reviews
Familiarity with CI/CD, Jira, and Agile/Scrum
Experience working with standardized Golden Path/platform engineering practices
AI-Assisted Engineering
Hands-on experience with AI development tools such as Claude, Cursor, Codex, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent
Ability to use AI effectively for planning, codebase exploration, implementation, refactoring, testing, debugging, code review, and documentation
Understanding of prompt and context engineering and providing AI with appropriate repository context, requirements, constraints, and architectural patterns
Familiarity with agentic workflows, agents/sub-agents, task decomposition, and parallel execution
Experience or understanding of Databricks/OpenAI and MCP (Model Context Protocol) integrations
Ability to critically validate AI-generated solutions for correctness, security, performance, and maintainability
Understanding that AI accelerates engineering delivery but does not replace engineering judgment, testing, review, or ownership
Nice to Have
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
Experience with Infrastructure as Code, such as Terraform
Familiarity with Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Experience with Codefresh, GitHub Actions, or similar CI/CD platforms
Understanding of OAuth 2.0 and modern authentication/authorization patterns
Experience building or integrating AI-enabled or agentic applications
Technology Stack
Frontend: React, Next.js, TypeScript
Backend: Node.js, TypeScript, NestJS
Database & ORM: PostgreSQL, TypeORM
Messaging/Eventing: AWS SQS, SNS
APIs: REST, OpenAPI
Email & Integrations: Microsoft Graph API
Observability: OpenTelemetry, UVP
AI: Databricks/OpenAI, MCP
Testing: Jest, Playwright
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