Java Backend Engineer

Role Summary
As a Software Engineer III - Java Backend (Tech Lead), you will serve as a hands-on technical leader responsible for end-to-end service architecture, delivery outcomes, and ensuring the reliability of backend systems. You will define and communicate technical direction, influence cross-functional teams, and drive modernization initiatives. This role requires expertise in cloud-native development, event-driven architectures, and leadership in engineering excellence within a remote environment.

Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship, now or in the future.
 

Responsibilities

• Set and communicate technical direction, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and priorities.
• Lead the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and resilient backend services, including modernization from on-premises to cloud environments.
• Develop and evolve service-level architecture, including APIs, data models, messaging patterns, and error handling strategies.
• Promote build-it / run-it ownership practices, supporting services in production and participating in incident management.
• Drive system modernization efforts using domain-driven and evolutionary architecture principles.
• Lead adoption of AI- and agentic-first engineering practices, integrating automation and validation standards into development workflows.
• Establish architectural guardrails through patterns, reference implementations, and lightweight review processes to enable team autonomy.
• Define and enforce quality, observability, and reliability standards, including SLIs/SLOs, testing strategies, and proactive monitoring.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, security, and platform teams to ensure scalable and performant solutions.
• Mentor engineering team members through design/code reviews, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and technical excellence.

Qualifications

• 8–10+ years of professional experience in backend software engineering with demonstrated ownership of production systems.
• Proven technical leadership experience as a Tech Lead or senior individual contributor.
• Strong expertise in Java or JVM-based environments, designing and operating secure, scalable backend services.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, particularly AWS, and familiarity with cloud-native architecture patterns.
• Deep understanding of event-driven architectures, including pub/sub patterns and failure handling strategies.
• Experience supporting services in production, including on-call responsibilities and incident resolution.
• Strong discipline in testing, CI/CD, code review practices, and operational excellence.
• Excellent communication skills, capable of documenting and explaining complex architectural decisions.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across diverse teams and manage stakeholder expectations.
• Familiarity with modernization of legacy systems, domain-driven design, containerization, Infrastructure-as-Code, and observability tools is a plus.

Publishing Pay Range: $75.00 - $80.00 Hourly 
This is a fully remote role and can be performed from any approved location within the United States.