Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Aravo Solutions, Inc. provides leading third-party risk management solutions powered by intelligent automation software. The Staff Software Engineer will serve as a technical anchor for the Integration & Platform team, focusing on the architecture and evolution of backend services, driving modernization initiatives, and leading cloud-native architecture efforts.
Responsibilities
- Own, design, and evolve distributed backend services using Java and Spring Boot
- Architect systems for scalability, reliability, performance, and observability
- Drive and document architectural decisions through ADRs, RFCs, and other technical artifacts
- Establish and enforce engineering standards, design patterns, and best practices
- Define and implement cloud-native architecture patterns across environments
- Lead adoption and optimization of: Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CDK), Containerization and orchestration (Kubernetes), Service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd)
- Optimize systems for resilience, cost efficiency, and operational excellence
- Design, build, and scale multi-tenant RESTful APIs and integration services
- Lead modernization initiatives, including legacy SOAP to REST migrations
- Define, standardize, and enforce API governance and best practices
- Architect and implement integration patterns including: Webhooks, Event-driven systems (Kafka, Kinesis), External system connectivity frameworks
- Design and implement Model Context Protocol (MCP) server/client patterns
- Enable secure interactions between LLM agents and internal systems, databases, and tools
- Ensure AI integrations are safe, observable, governed, and scalable
- Contribute to evolving AI-driven platform capabilities
- Elevate standards for code quality, peer reviews, and maintainability
- Define and promote robust testing strategies (unit, integration, performance)
- Improve observability, monitoring, and on-call practices
- Mentor senior engineers and provide technical leadership across teams
- Partner closely with Product, Infrastructure, and Integration teams
- Translate ambiguous business requirements into clear technical solutions and roadmaps
- Communicate technical trade-offs effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Actively participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies and planning processes
Skills
- 8+ years of hands-on Java development in production environments
- Deep expertise with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud ecosystems
- Strong understanding of JVM internals, performance tuning, concurrency, and multithreading
- Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Strong experience with Kubernetes and containerized deployments
- Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CDK)
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines at scale
- Familiarity with service mesh architectures
- Proven experience designing and scaling distributed systems
- Strong understanding of event-driven architectures (Kafka, Kinesis)
- Expertise in API design (REST, GraphQL, and legacy SOAP systems)
- Solid data modeling experience (SQL and NoSQL databases)
- Strong foundation in security principles (authentication, authorization, secrets management)
- Experience with distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry)
- Familiarity with logging and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana)
- Experience defining and managing SLOs/SLAs
- Participation in incident response and postmortem processes
- Experience or exposure to Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Familiarity with LLM integrations, agent workflows, and AI-enabled systems
- Understanding of secure design principles for AI interactions
- Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction without direct authority
- Strong mentorship, coaching, and team development skills
- Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous and fast-paced environments
- Experience leading large-scale platform modernization initiatives
- Strong documentation practices and technical writing skills
- Passion for emerging technologies, particularly AI-driven development patterns
- Excellent collaboration and stakeholder management abilities
- Continuous learner with a growth mindset and a bias toward innovation
Benefits
- 100% Employer Paid Medical Insurance options for the Employee and Family
- Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
- Life and AD&D Insurance
- Long-Term Disability Insurance
- 401K with Company Matching
- Equity Participation
- 4 Weeks of Vacation
- Fully Stocked Kitchens
- Company-Sponsored Charitable Day of Giving Events
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