Senior Software Engineer I - Backend (For temp workers)

What We’re Looking For

• Able to become productive within the first few weeks.
• Comfortable working in large, existing codebases.
• Strong engineering fundamentals and pragmatic decision making.
• Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Clear written and verbal communication.
• Advanced Claude and Codex usage.
• Reliable delivery with minimal supervision.
• Able to estimate work realistically and communicate risks early.
• Comfortable working in fast-paced Agile environments.

Role Overview
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and evolve scalable, reliable, and high-performance backend services.

This role is suited for engineers who can quickly understand complex distributed systems, make sound technical decisions, lead implementation of large initiatives, and consistently deliver production-ready software with minimal supervision. In addition to hands-on development, you will help drive technical excellence through architecture, code quality, and mentoring.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs.
• Lead the technical implementation of medium to large engineering initiatives.
• Design resilient, observable, and fault-tolerant distributed systems.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested Java code.
• Review technical designs and provide architectural guidance.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues and perform root cause analysis.
• Improve system performance, reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Drive engineering best practices, code quality, and testing standards.
• Participate in code reviews and mentor other engineers.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and operational tooling.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, frontend engineers, and infrastructure teams.

Must Have

• 5+ years of professional backend development experience.
• Strong expertise in Java and Spring Boot.
• Extensive experience designing and building REST APIs.
• Strong experience with distributed systems and microservice architectures.
• Experience with Kubernetes and containerized applications.
• Experience with Kafka or similar messaging technologies.
• Experience with relational databases and data modeling.
• Strong understanding of scalability, reliability, resiliency, and fault tolerance.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting.
• Experience writing unit, integration, and end-to-end tests.
• Strong debugging and production troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and production deployments.
• Ability to drive technical solutions independently.
• Strong code review and mentoring experience.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Nice to Have

• Experience with GraphQL.
• Experience with AWS or GCP.
• Experience with SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets.
• Experience with A/B testing platforms.
• Experience optimizing JVM performance.
• Experience working on high-scale consumer platforms.
• Experience leading technical initiatives across multiple teams.