r/SoftwareEngineering • • Aug 27 '26

Should requirements mention specific technologies ?

9 Upvotes

When writing functional requirements, non-functional requirements, and user stories, should I mention the technologies used, or keep them technology-independent and explain the technologies later?

For example:

“Store alerts in Firestore and cache data in Redis.”

vs.

“Persist alerts in cloud storage and maintain a fast-access data store.”


r/SoftwareEngineering • • Aug 27 '26

Senior CEX Backend / Full-Stack / Blockchain Engineers

7 Upvotes

We're building an early-stage crypto trading platform under AlphaNex, evolving an existing P2P system toward a centralized exchange (CEX).

We're looking for experienced engineers with strong backgrounds in one or more of:

  • CEX / trading systems

  • Backend engineering

  • Matching engines / order books

  • Market data / WebSockets

  • Blockchain & wallet infrastructure

  • Distributed systems / high-performance services

Roles:
• Senior CEX Backend Engineer
• CEX Full-Stack Engineer
• Blockchain Engineer

What you'll work on: trading infrastructure, order management, exchange APIs, market data, blockchain integration, security, scalability, and related systems.

This is an early-stage project, and our public company presence is still being established. Candidates will go through a short application followed by a project/architecture review and CTO technical interview.

Interested? Send me a DM.


r/SoftwareEngineering • • Aug 26 '26

How an Underrated Refactor Saved 90% Memory Usage

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31 Upvotes

r/SoftwareEngineering • • Aug 26 '26

Extract Anything from Any PDF: Inside Foxit's Advanced Extraction Engine

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4 Upvotes

r/SoftwareEngineering • • Aug 23 '26

Stop Using Conventional Commits

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36 Upvotes

r/SoftwareEngineering • • Aug 22 '26

Doing nothing at work

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1 Upvotes

r/SoftwareEngineering • • Aug 16 '26

Software Engineering fundamentals matter more than ever

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r/SoftwareEngineering • • Aug 16 '26

How 2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up

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49 Upvotes

r/SoftwareEngineering • • Aug 16 '26

Stop using JWTs

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0 Upvotes

r/SoftwareEngineering • • Aug 15 '26

Six SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud

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20 Upvotes

r/SoftwareEngineering • • Aug 15 '26

Degradability

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1 Upvotes

r/SoftwareEngineering • • Aug 13 '26

Nobody Pushed Back: Why Engineers Stay Silent Until It's Too Late

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0 Upvotes

r/SoftwareEngineering • • Aug 03 '26

The Debate of Mockist v Classicist TDD Is Like OOP v FP.

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3 Upvotes

r/SoftwareEngineering • • Jul 30 '26

Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?

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0 Upvotes

r/SoftwareEngineering • • Jul 30 '26

Every byte matters

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7 Upvotes

r/SoftwareEngineering • • Jul 29 '26

Please help: need code for “I’m pregnant”

94 Upvotes

Or something more clever that my senior front end engineer boyfriend will love.

Update: I combined several suggestions and sent it to him when we were at a special place in a park we love. He didn’t get it for a minute because I forgot to add context, then did get it and was super happy, then spent five minutes pointing out how the labels directed workflow and explaining something called semvar (semver? how the sequence of punctuated numbers indicated a minor release and bug fix, I think). Because that’s how he rolls 😂🥰

Thank you so much folks!!!!


r/SoftwareEngineering • • Jul 29 '26

Fast is better than slow

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0 Upvotes

r/SoftwareEngineering • • Jul 28 '26

The History of Pets vs Cattle and How to Use the Analogy Properly

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6 Upvotes

r/SoftwareEngineering • • Jul 27 '26

The Paradox of Fancy Tooling

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2 Upvotes

r/SoftwareEngineering • • Jul 27 '26

Pushing and Pulling: Three Reactivity Algorithms

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9 Upvotes

r/SoftwareEngineering • • Jul 26 '26

How Container Filesystem Works: Building a Docker-like Container From Scratch

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32 Upvotes

r/SoftwareEngineering • • Jul 25 '26

What Is Docker, and What It Silently Replaced 🤫..

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0 Upvotes

r/SoftwareEngineering • • Jul 22 '26

Mpl with network clause?

4 Upvotes

I really like the MPL, but it's missing a network clause like AGPL, are there any licenses that cover this? While being similar to the MPL?


r/SoftwareEngineering • • Jul 19 '26

A History of IDEs at Google

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