Genesys empowers organizations of all sizes to improve loyalty and business outcomes by creating the best experiences for their customers and employees. Through Genesys Cloud, the AI-powered Experience Orchestration platform, organizations can accelerate growth by delivering empathetic, personalized experiences at scale to drive customer loyalty, workforce engagement, efficiency and operational improvements.
We employ more than 6,000 people across the globe who embrace empathy and cultivate collaboration to succeed. And, while we offer great benefits and perks like larger tech companies, our employees have the independence to make a larger impact on the company and take ownership of their work. Join the team and create the future of customer experience together.
Role Overview:
Shape how millions of customer interactions are routed in real time by building and evolving a core microservice within the Genesys Cloud platform. This role directly impacts how organizations connect with their customers by ensuring conversations are intelligently matched with the right agents at global scale. As a senior engineer on the Assignment team, you will own critical components of a highly available, event driven system and influence architectural direction across the platform. You will partner with product, engineering, and operations leaders to deliver resilient, scalable solutions while expanding your impact through platform level initiatives, shared services, and mentorship. This role offers strong visibility into enterprise scale systems and provides a clear path to deeper technical leadership and architectural influence.
Key Responsibilities:
Own the end to end design, development, testing, and deployment of features within a high scale routing microservice
Drive improvements to system performance, scalability, and reliability across a globally distributed cloud platform
Resolve complex technical challenges by analyzing production issues and implementing durable, long term solutions
Influence architectural decisions by advocating for maintainability, observability, and automation across services
Review and elevate code quality across the team, ensuring alignment with engineering best practices and platform standards
Collaborate with cross functional teams to deliver cohesive platform capabilities and align on technical direction
Strengthen platform resilience by proactively identifying risks and improving system behavior under load
Participate in on call rotations to support service reliability and continuously improve incident response mechanisms
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field
6+ years of professional software development experience in Java or a similar language
Strong experience designing and building distributed systems or microservices architectures
Demonstrated ability to solve complex technical problems with scalable and maintainable solutions
Proficiency with version control systems such as Git
Experience working in collaborative, cross functional engineering environments
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience building cloud native applications using platforms such as AWS
Familiarity with event driven systems and streaming technologies such as Kafka
Experience working with NoSQL databases and distributed data systems
Knowledge of RESTful API design and service integration patterns
Exposure to AI assisted development tools such as Kiro, Cursor, or Amazon Q
Experience contributing to shared libraries or platform level engineering initiatives
Benefits That Support You:
We invest in your well-being, because when you’re at your best, so are the experiences you create.
Comprehensive extended group health coverage
Generous paid time off, including vacation and personal leave
Retirement savings program with employer RRSP matching up to a prescribed maximum amount
Family-friendly benefits, including parental leave top-up and adoption assistance
Growth and development opportunities through access to learning resources and internal mobility programs
Exact details of these programs, including the conditions for eligibility, the amount of the benefit (including caps on benefits and customary pricing details), the length of the paid time off, etc. will be provided upon hire and is subject to Genesys policies.
This is an active opening at Genesys. We use Artificial Intelligence to support the hiring process, but every application is reviewed by our Talent Acquisition team, looking beyond keywords to focus on your experience and potential.
Compensation:
This role has a market-competitive salary with an anticipated base compensation range listed below. Actual salaries will vary depending on a candidate’s experience, qualifications, skills, and location. This role might also be eligible for a commission or performance-based bonus opportunities.
112,600.00 - $147,700.00Employee Referrals:
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About Genesys:
Genesys® empowers more than 8,000 organizations worldwide to create the best customer and employee experiences. With agentic AI at its core, Genesys Cloud™ is the AI-Powered Experience Orchestration platform that connects people, systems, data and AI across the enterprise. As a result, organizations can drive customer loyalty, growth and retention while increasing operational efficiency and teamwork across human and AI workforces. To learn more, visit www.genesys.com.
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