Sr R&D Engineer- Software

Join Nokia’s Autonomous Networks team and help build intelligent platforms that are shaping the AI era. You’ll be part of a collaborative team developing a shared portal platform that enables applications to deliver innovative use cases through common backend services, APIs, and integrations. Acting as a Backend Developer, you’ll design and build scalable backend services and APIs across SaaS and on-premises environments. This hands-on role offers the opportunity to work on backend architecture, integrations, scalability, and operational excellence while contributing to smarter, more connected autonomous network operations. Design and develop scalable, secure, and maintainable backend services and APIs for portal capabilities and shared services. Build reusable service layers that enable multiple Autonomous Network applications to leverage common platform functionality. Develop integrations with AN applications, analytics platforms, and operational data sources to support cross-domain and subscriber-centric use cases. Define and maintain service contracts, authentication, authorization, and configuration patterns. Collaborate with frontend engineers, architects, and platform teams to deliver reliable end-to-end solutions . Ensure backend services meet key requirements for performance, reliability, resilience, security, and observability . Contribute to automated testing, CI/CD, code reviews, troubleshooting, deployments, and release activities across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Apply modern engineering practices, including AI-assisted development tools , to improve productivity, code quality, and delivery. You have: Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, with 5–8 years of relevant software engineering experience in backend development (total experience 8+ yrs). Hands-on experience with REST APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and backend programming using Java, Go, Python, or similar languages. Good understanding of data models, databases, caching, messaging/event-driven patterns, authentication/authorization, secure API development, and cloud-native practices including containers and CI/CD.Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams, with strong debugging, problem-solving, and collaboration skills; familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar is a plus. Nice to have: Experience building backend systems for enterprise portals, platform services, or operations tools, with exposure to SaaS, on-premises, Kubernetes, and hybrid cloud environments. Familiarity with analytics, observability, telemetry, logging, and monitoring frameworks, as well as portal architectures supporting AI or Agentic AI use cases. Knowledge of telecom and network domains, including LTE, 5G, RAN, Core, or service operations, is an advantage.