Senior Software Development Engineer (Backend)

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Software Development Engineer (Backend)

• Work model: Remote (must live within 30 miles of Boston, MA; San Francisco Bay Area, CA; Dallas, TX; Salt Lake City, UT; Seattle, WA; or Portland, ME)

Description

Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable, high-performance backend services and public REST APIs using Java and internal gRPC APIs. Lead system design decisions, improve scalability and stability, and implement automation for testing, monitoring, healing, and CI/CD. Provide live-site support by monitoring production systems, troubleshooting complex issues, and ensuring reliability and performance.

Responsibilities

• Design and build internet-scale backend services and object-oriented code

• Develop REST APIs and internal gRPC APIs for inter-service communication

• Create and drive system designs and alignment among senior engineers

• Write automated unit, integration, end-to-end, concurrency, and load/performance tests

• Identify bottlenecks, address tech debt, and implement scalability and stability improvements

• Automate testing, monitoring, healing, and scaling via CI/CD

• Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver features

• Perform code reviews and mentor junior/mid-level engineers

• Troubleshoot complex production issues; write root cause analysis documents

• Evaluate competing technologies and advise on tradeoffs

• Maintain documentation (design docs, run books, readiness plans)

• Monitor systems and provide rapid incident resolution for production services

• Lead cross-team initiatives as a single-threaded-owner (STO) or tech lead

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

• Senior-level experience in software engineering

• Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms, object-oriented design, and problem-solving

• Expertise in scalable, available, secure, and reliable internet-scale services

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Backend proficiency in Java or C# and frameworks like Spring Boot

• Experience building and optimizing RESTful APIs (including ODATA) and working with SQL

• Ability to leverage AI-enabled development tools (e.g., Cursor AI, Kiro, GitHub Copilot)

• Fluent English

• Must reside within 30 miles of one of the listed metro areas

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance

• Retirement savings plan

• Paid time off

• Health savings account and flexible spending accounts

• Life insurance and disability insurance

• Tuition reimbursement

• Base pay range: $121,500.00 - $145,500.00