Senior Software Engineer - Action

Position: Senior Software Engineer - Next Best Action
* Design, deploy, and maintain resilient database schemas to support:  + Comprehensive action and variant catalogs  + Versioning, lifecycle management, and effective dating  + Rule bindings and complex metadata relationships
* Select and operate appropriate data stores (relational, document, key-value) tailored to workload and scalability requirements.
* Implement and monitor:  + Schema migration and backward compatibility strategies  + Indexing and query optimization for performance  + Data integrity, consistency, and reliability  + Auditability and traceability for compliance and governance
* Integrate and manage enterprise-grade rules engines to support:  + Eligibility, constraints, and business policies  + Suppression, cooldowns, exclusions, and other operational guardrails  + Policy-driven allow/deny logic
* Work with technologies such as Drools (DRL/DMN), IBM ODM, DMN-based services, OPA/Rego, or similar.
* Ensure rule execution is deterministic, versioned, stateless, and free from unintended side effects.
* Develop automated tests for:  + Database migrations and schema changes  + Service-level contracts and API backward compatibility  + Rules behavior, precedence, and edge cases
* Ensure platforms are fully observable and resilient, featuring:  + Structured logging, metrics, and alerting  + Clear error handling, fallback strategies, and robust incident management
* Support audit and compliance requirements through traceable and reproducible system behavior
* Minimum 6 years of experience in backend or platform engineering
* Proven ability to build:  + Microservices and REST/gRPC APIs  + Database-backed systems with complex, evolving schemas  + Deterministic rules or policy-driven platforms
* Direct experience integrating enterprise rules engines (Drools, ODM, DMN, OPA, or similar)
* Strong proficiency in Java and/or Python
* Experience using AI-assisted development tools for increased productivity and accuracy
* Experience designing versioned schemas and backward-compatible APIs
* Knowledge of high-throughput, low-latency architectures
* Familiarity with systems requiring explainability, auditability, and strong compliance
* Background in regulated or high-compliance domains

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