About this role
Join us as a Senior Software Engineer on the team behind our Family History Trees - a flagship product with massive visibility and real-world impact for millions worldwide. The team oversees cutting-edge, high-throughput systems engineered for extreme scale and near-zero downtime, enabling seamless user experiences even under heavy load.
Be at the heart of everything Ancestry does. Shape the future of how people connect with their heritage and stories, directly influencing the company’s success and strategic goals. This is your opportunity to join a passionate team, solving complex, meaningful challenges on an industry-leading platform.
What you’ll do:
Develop, maintain and deploy backend functionality to support the evolving needs of Ancestry customers in the Ancestry Member Trees domain
Work with an accomplished and collaborative team to develop microservices that serve millions of requests per second and operate in a large cloud environment
Write code and unit tests, conduct code reviews, contribute to architecture discussions, prioritization and planning
Write and deploy Infrastructure as Code and work with DevOps to ensure that our services remain in optimal working condition
Help build the next generation of services at Ancestry
AI Orchestration & Oversight: Shift from manual coding to strategic AI mentorship. You'll guide intelligent agents using precise architectural constraints and apply deep domain expertise to review machine-generated code, ensuring high reliability, performance, and minimal technical debt.
Who you are:
BS degree in Computer Science or related field required
Proficient in Java or JVM languages with 5+ years of experience in an enterprise environment
Use Agile or other rapid application development methods
RESTful web service development
Experience with operating in and understanding AWS (preferred), Azure or GCP cloud environments (Fargate, Aurora, MSK, EC2)
You are a technical orchestrator who leverages AI tooling and agents to produce software, focusing your expertise on directing the work, reviewing the output, and ensuring architectural quality.
Bonus...
Experience in large sharded database environments and MySQL (Aurora)
Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or other infrastructure as code tool
Experience with SCM/DevOps tools such as GIT, Harness build and deployment automation with Harness and CI/CD
Why Ancestry?
Join a dedicated team working to connect millions of people with their past and enrich their futures. At Ancestry, you will play a role in pioneering legal solutions that shape the consumer genomics industry. Your contributions will help foster and protect our workforce that is dedicated to helping our customers tell their own stories, while supporting a brand recognized and trusted around the world. We offer a collaborative workplace, competitive compensation, and the opportunity to make a meaningful difference.
Compensation
Ancestry values pay transparency and equity. As a signatory of the ParityPledge in Support of Women and the ParityPledge in Support of People of Color, we are pleased to share the base salary range for this position: $120,000 - $135,000 with eligibility for bonus, equity, and comprehensive benefits including health, dental, and vision. Actual salary will depend on location and experience. We will provide detailed compensation data for a specific location during the recruiting process.
*Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20) and sb1162(1-1-23).