Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Wordly provides real-time translation services in numerous languages for organizations, businesses, government entities, and companies worldwide. The company is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, maintain, and improve backend services and APIs supporting real-time translation experiences, while owning complex features and contributing to technical quality and delivery.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs from product requirements and established architectural direction
- Take ownership of complex backend features and services from technical design through implementation and delivery
- Improve and support existing backend services, including debugging and resolving complex production issues
- Implement solutions involving distributed systems, messaging and event streaming systems, caches, and NoSQL data stores
- Write and maintain comprehensive unit and integration tests, and actively improve test coverage and code quality
- Participate actively in technical design and code reviews, providing constructive technical feedback to other engineers
- Identify opportunities to improve maintainability, reliability, and engineering practices within the areas you work on
- Work cross-functionally with Product, other engineers, and technical leads to deliver backend functionality
- Use AI-assisted development tools effectively and responsibly as part of day-to-day engineering work
Skills
- 5+ years of hands-on experience building and maintaining backend services and APIs from product requirements
- Strong hands-on experience with Java or Kotlin; experience with both is a plus
- Experience with backend frameworks such as Micronaut, Spring Boot, or similar
- Strong experience working in distributed systems and microservice environments
- Experience with messaging and event streaming systems, NoSQL databases, distributed caches, and CI/CD pipelines
- Strong experience writing and maintaining unit and integration tests, with a focus on producing reliable and well-tested software
- Experience debugging and resolving complex issues in backend services
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code, or similar, and comfort using them effectively and responsibly
- Experience working in modern software development workflows, including version control and code review practices
- Comfortable working with a fully remote team
- Self-motivated and able to independently deliver complex features from requirements through implementation
- B.S. degree in Computer Science or equivalent from an accredited institution
- Manipulating real-time audio streams
- Developing Node.js applications
Benefits
- Fully remote position
- Office space in Los Altos, California is available for San Francisco Bay Area residents who wish to utilize it
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