Staff, Back-end engineer

Responsibilities

• Design, build, deploy, and maintain core Workflow Platform infrastructure using Temporal, Netflix Conductor, and distributed workflow orchestration systems.
• Architect and deliver highly scalable, resilient, and high-performance platform services.
• Benchmark and optimize platform reliability, throughput, latency, and performance using collected metrics and published results.
• Maintain platform availability and operational excellence through observability, monitoring, alerting, incident management, and 99.995% uptime objectives.
• Estimate, provision, and scale infrastructure capacity while optimizing performance and cost efficiency.
• Develop and operate mission-critical backend services and distributed systems in AWS using Java and Spring Framework.
• Investigate complex system issues, identify root causes, implement preventive measures, and improve operational excellence.
• Collaborate with engineering teams and stakeholders to build extensible platform capabilities and deliver scalable solutions.
• Lead, coach, and develop software engineers and guide architecture, implementation, and delivery discussions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of total experience.
• Experience designing, building, deploying, and maintaining distributed workflow orchestration or platform infrastructure.
• Experience developing and operating backend services and distributed systems in AWS using Java and Spring Framework.
• Ability to architect scalable, resilient, and high-performance services and optimize reliability, throughput, latency, performance, and cost.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, alerting, incident management, root-cause analysis, and operational excellence.
• Ability to lead technical design discussions, collaborate with stakeholders, and guide engineering teams through delivery.
• Preferred experience leading, coaching, and developing software engineers.
• Preferred knowledge of Agile software engineering practices, coding standards, code reviews, testing, CI/CD processes, and live-site operations.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability, flexible spending, and health savings account benefits.
• Employee Assistance Program, 401(k) plan with company match, paid parental leave, and pre-tax commuter benefits.
• 18–21 days of paid time off annually based on tenure and 12 paid holidays.
• Free electric car charging station.