Staff Backend Engineer

We’re looking for a hands-on Staff Backend Engineer/Technical Lead

This person must be capable of independently designing, developing, deploying, and operating a production backend service while working effectively across application, infrastructure, security, and product teams.

Key requirements:

• Strong production experience with Kotlin or Java/JVM and Spring Boot
• Experience designing and supporting REST APIs and distributed systems
• Strong knowledge of MongoDB or Amazon DocumentDB, including data modeling, indexing, migrations, concurrency, and atomic updates
• Experience with Kafka, Avro, Schema Registry, asynchronous processing, retries, and idempotency
• Hands-on deployment experience with AWS, EKS/Kubernetes, Helm, and CI/CD
• Working knowledge of AWS IAM/IRSA, secrets management/Vault, and service networking
• Strong testing practices, including unit and integration testing with tools such as Testcontainers
• Experience with production observability, troubleshooting, incident response, and safe rollback strategies
• Demonstrated technical leadership and ability to drive cross-functional work with minimal supervision

Nice-to-have experience:

• Temporal workflows
• Confluent Cloud
• Istio and OPA
• OpenTelemetry, Datadog, or Honeycomb
• Gradle, CircleCI, Jib, Cosign, and Snyk
• Legacy-system modernization or migration projects
• This is primarily a backend and platform-oriented role, not a frontend, pure DevOps, people-management, or machine-learning position. We need a senior individual contributor who remains hands-on and can take end-to-end ownership of the service.