Distributed Systems Engineer

Job Title: Distributed Systems Engineer


Job Duties:


INSPYR Solutions, LLC in Fort Lauderdale, FL is seeking a Distributed Systems Engineer to design, develop, and operate scalable web applications and the distributed backend services that support them. The engineer will build user-facing functionality, service APIs, and asynchronous processing systems, ensuring reliability, performance, and secure integration across application components.
Job responsibilities and duties include:
• Design and implement web application features and backend services supporting user workflows, onboarding, configuration, and transactional processing.
• Develop RESTful and event-driven APIs consumed by browser-based clients and internal services.
• Build and maintain microservices that support high-traffic user-facing applications.
• Integrate front-end application requests with backend processing pipelines and messaging systems.
• Implement server-side business logic, data validation, and persistence.
• Design asynchronous processing using messaging and streaming platforms for background jobs and long-running workflows.
• Ensure application resiliency through retry logic, timeouts, caching, and graceful failure handling.
• Optimize performance across the full request lifecycle, including browser request handling, API latency, and database access.
• Implement authentication, authorization, and session management for web applications and service-to-service communication.
• Troubleshoot production issues involving API failures, data inconsistencies, and performance bottlenecks.
• Instrument applications using logging, metrics, and monitoring tools to improve observability.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, QA, and infrastructure teams to deliver reliable and scalable functionality.
• Support deployments and participate in operational support and incident resolution.
This position has no direct reports and does not supervise the work of any other employees.


MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) field and five (5) years of post-degree, progressively responsible experience in the job offered or in any related position(s) in which the required experience was gained. Employer will accept foreign degree equivalency.


Qualified applicants must also have demonstrable proficiency, skill, experience, and knowledge with the following:
• Advanced Java concurrency (threading models, executors, locks, synchronization, and memory visibility/JMM)
• Spring WebFlux
• Designing and operating distributed microservices architectures
• Apache Kafka internals (consumer groups, partitioning strategy, offset management, delivery guarantees, and exactly-once or at-least-once semantics)
• Implementing event-driven systems and asynchronous workflows
• Caching strategies (distributed caching, cache invalidation, eviction policies, and consistency tradeoffs)
Additional Information:

• Job Site: 600 Corporate Drive, Ste. 500, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33334
• Salary$ 172,286
• Employer offers standard medical, dental, vision, 401k, short-term disability, voluntary life, voluntary AD&D, hospital indemnity insurance, and long term disability.
• Travel: No Travel. Work from home anywhere within the US
• Apply on website at:
• EOE/Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship

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About INSPYR Solutions
Technology is our focus and quality is our commitment. As a national expert in delivering flexible technology and talent solutions, we strategically align industry and technical expertise with our clients' business objectives and cultural needs. Our solutions are tailored to each client and include a wide variety of professional services, project, and talent solutions. By always striving for excellence and focusing on the human aspect of our business, we work seamlessly with our talent and clients to match the right solutions to the right opportunities. Learn more about us at inspyrsolutions.com.


INSPYR Solutions provides Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or any other protected status. INSPYR Solutions complies with all applicable laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. Applicants requiring reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process should contact View email address on click.appcast.io for assistance.


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