We’re looking for a hands-on
Staff Backend Engineer/Technical Lead
This person must be capable of independently designing, developing, deploying, and operating a production backend service while working effectively across application, infrastructure, security, and product teams.
Key requirements
Strong production experience with
Kotlin or Java/JVM and Spring Boot
Experience designing and supporting
REST APIs and distributed systems
Strong knowledge of
MongoDB or Amazon DocumentDB
, including data modeling, indexing, migrations, concurrency, and atomic updates
Experience with
Kafka, Avro, Schema Registry, asynchronous processing, retries, and idempotency
Hands-on deployment experience with
AWS, EKS/Kubernetes, Helm, and CI/CD
Working knowledge of
AWS IAM/IRSA, secrets management/Vault, and service networking
Strong testing practices, including unit and integration testing with tools such as
Testcontainers
Experience with production observability, troubleshooting, incident response, and safe rollback strategies
Demonstrated technical leadership and ability to drive cross-functional work with minimal supervision
Nice-to-have experience:
Temporal workflows
Confluent Cloud
Istio and OPA
OpenTelemetry, Datadog, or Honeycomb
Gradle, CircleCI, Jib, Cosign, and Snyk
Legacy-system modernization or migration projects
This is primarily a
backend and platform-oriented role
, not a frontend, pure DevOps, people-management, or machine-learning position. We need a senior individual contributor who remains hands-on and can take end-to-end ownership of the service.