Agility Partners is seeking a qualified Senior Backend Engineer to fill an open position with one of our clients. This is an exciting opportunity to join a newly formed product team building next-generation customer experiences powered by AI, personalization, search, and recommendation technologies. The ideal candidate will help design and build a cloud-native backend platform from the ground up while influencing technical strategy, architecture, and product direction in a greenfield environment.
Responsibilities
• Design, develop, and scale cloud-native backend services, APIs, and distributed systems using Java and modern engineering practices.
• Partner with product, design, and engineering teams to translate business opportunities into scalable technical solutions.
• Drive architecture decisions, technical planning, system design reviews, and platform strategy.
• Build orchestration layers and service integrations supporting AI-powered customer experiences, personalization, and recommendation capabilities.
• Implement engineering best practices around automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and software quality.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools and modern DevOps practices to improve productivity and delivery outcomes.
The Ideal Candidate
• 7+ years of experience building enterprise-scale backend applications, APIs, and distributed systems.
• Strong hands-on Java development experience with expertise in microservices and service-oriented architectures.
• Experience designing and deploying scalable cloud-native solutions on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Deep understanding of system architecture, event-driven design patterns, and service integrations.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, TDD, and modern DevOps practices.
• Comfortable working in ambiguous, fast-paced environments where requirements are evolving.
• Experience leveraging AI tools throughout the software development lifecycle to improve efficiency and code quality.
• Previous experience with recommendation engines, search platforms, personalization systems, machine learning products, or greenfield platform development is a strong plus.