Vaibhav Jain

Software Engineer

Seattle, Washington, United States16 yrs 5 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led multiple high-impact projects at Amazon and Paxos.
  • Expert in microservices and distributed systems architecture.
  • Strong mentor and team culture builder.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack engineer with expertise in Fintech and SaaS.

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Skills

Core Skills

MicroservicesDistributed Systems

Other Skills

Go (Programming Language)SQLPostgreSQLKubernetesAPI DevelopmentSnowflaketemporalAmazon S3Amazon DynamodbAmazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)JavaNoSQLElasticsearchPython (Programming Language)Amazon SQS

About

Senior Software Engineer with a track record of leading the design and development of complex customer impacting projects. I have worked across multiple orgs in Amazon and have been responsible for delivering products and features end-to-end. My projects have involved designing and scaling fault-tolerant, low latency distributed systems based on microservice architecture. I also guide and mentor other engineers through design and code reviews and 1:1 mentoring. Specialities: - Microservices - AWS - Serverless - Operational readiness - Building resilient, fault-tolerant, low latency distributed systems - Converting complex business requirements to technical solutions

Experience

16 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
8 mos
Current Experience

Sofi

Staff Software Engineer

Sep 2025Present · 8 mos · Remote

Paxos

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2023Sep 2025 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Redmond, Washington, United States · Remote

  • Led design and delivery of a self-serve institutional reporting platform, replacing manual workflows and legacy systems with a scalable solution powered by Temporal + Snowflake.
  • Launched Hot Mint Workflow, reducing stablecoin minting effort by 90% and accelerating client withdrawals.
  • Drove Dedicated Wallets initiative—a blockchain-based custody solution enabling enterprise-grade asset storage, transfers, and auditability.
  • Increased platform scalability by decoupling core services from downstream DB dependencies.
  • Improved reliability and observability, standardizing logs/metrics/alerts and migrating monitoring to Datadog.
  • Strengthened team culture, revamping onboarding and refining processes to accelerate ramp-up and productivity.
Go (Programming Language)SQLPostgreSQLKubernetesMicroservicesAPI Development+3

Amazon web services (aws)

2 roles

Senior Software Development Engineer

Promoted

Dec 2018Jun 2023 · 4 yrs 6 mos

  • Led a team of engineers to design and develop Future Planning System, a full-stack serverless platform to streamline the sales planning process for Amazon Advertising Sales by making it efficient, auditable and less error prone. This reduced the planning time by 75%.
  • Led a team of engineers to design and develop Deal Execution Platform for AWS Sales, cutting deal
  • processing time from ~30 days to ~10 days. This involved building a configurable and dynamic workflow
  • orchestration system using AWS services that enabled customers to define their own workflows and update workflow execution at runtime based on deal parameters. Integrated with multiple internal and external services for automating manual processes.
  • Led a team of engineers to design and develop Paid Digital Subscriptions platform for AWS Training and
  • Certification org to enable customers to purchase digital subscriptions on AWS training website for the first time. This involved building services such as shopping cart, order management, checkout and integrating with third-party systems.
  • Authored a 3-year technical roadmap for AWS Training and Certification E-commerce team.
  • Established a design review council to raise the design quality bar for the AWS Sales Engineering org and help other engineering teams.
  • Revitalized the operational excellence bar-raiser group in AWS Training & Certification org and improved the org-wide operational review process.
  • Mentored junior engineers, fostering technical growth and development.
Amazon S3Amazon DynamodbMicroservicesAmazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)JavaDistributed Systems+9

Software Development Engineer

Apr 2015Dec 2018 · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • Led the design and implementation of Enterprise Discount Program automation for AWS Commerce Platform that enabled enterprise customers to view their enterprise discounts on their AWS bills for the first time.
  • Led the design and development of Pricing Data Service, a highly scalable service that supports flexible pricing models and faster onboarding of new pricing models, implemented using NoSQL data model and microservice architecture. Managed the migration of data and clients from the legacy pricing service to the new service
  • Lead developer of Price List API for AWS which enabled customers to programmatically retrieve prices of AWS services for the first time.
Amazon S3SQLAmazon DynamodbMicroservicesJavaElasticsearch+6

Yahoo

Software Development Engineer

Mar 2014Mar 2015 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Member of Yahoo Video backend team focussing on metadata, search, personalization and analytics.
  • Worked on improving Yahoo Video search relevance and implementing robust and scalable apis.
JavaAPI Development

Informatica

Software Development Engineer

May 2013Mar 2014 · 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Member of Data Engine team which serves multiple Informatica products
  • Enhanced and optimized the framework that translates Informatica data flow plans into Hive workflows. Added parallel sorting optimization.
  • Improved existing technical documentation to help new members gain a better understanding of the framework.
  • Collaborated with QA and documentation team to clearly communicate the features and behaviors of the system

Intel corporation

Intern

Jun 2011Dec 2011 · 6 mos · Greater Phoenix Area

  • Worked on a proof-of-concept for running code on an isolated (logically-off) core in a multi-core system running Linux using C and assembly
  • Modified and fixed test-cases for validating chip design during pre-silicon validation

Computer sciences corporation

Software Engineer

Jul 2007Jul 2010 · 3 yrs

  • Added new features to a J2EE based application that provided web-service interface to a mainframe business application.
  • Developed utilities in Java to automate manual tasks in deployment and testing
  • Designed and developed in-house web application based on Struts for Resource Management
  • Trained new team-members on product and technology
  • Awarded “Certificate of Achievement” for developing utilities
  • Awarded “Certificate of Achievement” for playing critical role in deploying the enterprise application in production environment

Education

Arizona State University

M.S. — Computer Science

Jan 2010Jan 2012

SGSITS, Indore

B.E. — Computer Engineering

Jan 2003Jan 2007

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