Senior Backend Engineer (Java, Scala, K8s)

Requirements

• 6+ years of backend software engineering experience
• Strong expertise in Java and the JVM ecosystem
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems or microservices
• Hands-on experience with Kafka or other event streaming technologies
• Experience building high-scale backend systems or data platforms
• Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Familiarity with container orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Strong understanding of system scalability, performance, and reliability
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.)

What You'll Be Doing

• Design and build scalable backend services using Java and JVM technologies
• Develop high-performance APIs and microservices serving global customer traffic
• Build and operate distributed systems and event-driven architectures
• Design real-time and batch data processing pipelines using technologies such as Kafka and Spark
• Develop with a product-first approach, prioritizing quality, reliability, security, and performance
• Collaborate cross-functionally with architects, product managers, data engineers, and site reliability engineers
• Contribute to infrastructure-as-code efforts using tools like Terraform and manage CI/CD pipelines and container orchestration via Kubernetes
• Monitor services with advanced observability tooling like Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, New Relic, and Datadog

Perks and Benefits

• Work on systems that process billions of events every day
• Solve complex distributed systems challenges at global scale
• Build technology used by thousands of the world’s leading brands
• Collaborate with highly experienced engineers across multiple engineering teams
• Contribute to the evolution of cloud-native data platforms powering digital experiences