Staff Engineer, Backend APIs

What you'll do

• Design, build, and evolve microservice-based API products for reporting and analytics
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
• Collaborate with Product, UI, and Data engineers to deliver features end-to-end
• Design and build intuitive, well-documented APIs with clear contracts, versioning, pagination, filtering, batching, and strong SLAs/SLOs
• Shape data access patterns including schemas, query plans, caching, and performance tuning for big data
• Champion code quality with well-tested, observable, maintainable code, reviews, design docs, and documentation
• Own services in production including dashboards, alerting, capacity/load testing, cost-aware design, and reliability improvements
• Leverage AI-assisted tools in development
• Mentor teammates and help raise the technical bar across the organization

Requirements

• 8+ years of relevant work experience in software development
• Deep understanding of microservice fundamentals (service boundaries, resiliency, observability, CI/CD) and API design at scale
• Primary development experience in Java for high-throughput, low-latency back-end web services
• Experience with asynchronous programming patterns and high concurrency
• Experience with frameworks such as Vert.x and Dropwizard highly desirable
• Experience in roles with personal design and development contributions and technical leadership
• Track record of shipping well-tested, production-grade APIs
• Experience with development and CI tools like Maven, git, Docker, Codebuild or Jenkins, and Jira
• Clear, empathetic communication and collaborative mindset

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