Staff, Back-end engineer

Responsibilities

• Design, build, deploy, and maintain Workflow Platform infrastructure using Temporal, Netflix Conductor, and other distributed workflow orchestration systems.
• Architect and deliver scalable, resilient, high-performance platform services and distributed backend systems.
• Benchmark platform performance, collect metrics, publish results, and improve reliability, throughput, and latency.
• Maintain platform availability 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 in AWS using Java and Spring Framework.
• Investigate complex system issues, identify root causes, implement preventive measures, and improve operational excellence.
• Lead technical design discussions, guide architecture and delivery, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and coach software engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of total experience.
• Experience designing, building, deploying, and maintaining distributed workflow orchestration or platform infrastructure.
• Experience developing backend services and distributed systems in AWS using Java and Spring Framework.
• Ability to architect highly scalable, resilient, and high-performance services.
• Experience with performance benchmarking, monitoring, alerting, incident management, and operational excellence.
• Ability to lead, coach, and develop software engineers and guide technical design and architecture discussions.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills with engineering teams, business stakeholders, and end users.
• Experience with software engineering practices including coding standards, code reviews, testing, CI/CD processes, and live-site operations.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability, employee assistance, FSA, and HSA benefits.
• 401(k) plan with company match.
• 18–21 days of paid time off annually based on tenure and 12 paid holidays.
• Paid parental leave and pre-tax commuter benefits.
• Free electric vehicle charging station.
• US position with base pay varying by geographic market; recruitment process includes application review, job-fit interview, focus interview, and offer.