Participate across the entire software development lifecycle, taking features from concept to production release
Contribute backend and fullstack plumbing where needed to connect services, APIs, and product experiences end to end
Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and partner teams to translate business requirements into clean technical designs
Troubleshoot data, integration, and service issues across a large distributed codebase
Contribute to technical documentation to improve maintainability and team velocity
Help raise the bar on system design, observability, and engineering best practices across the team
Leverage AI tooling, with a preference for Claude, to accelerate software design, architecture, and implementation while maintaining strong engineering judgment and code quality
Requirements
5+ years of software engineering experience building backend or data-intensive systems in production environments
4+ years experience / strong proficiency in Java and the Spring Boot framework
Strong fundamentals working with databases and data modeling, both relational (e.g. PostgreSQL) & NoSQL (e.g. DynamoDB)
Experience with building applications in the cloud with AWS and experience with serverless infrastructure such as AWS Lambda
Experience with containerization and orchestration infrastructure (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, ECS)
Experience collaborating with Engineering and Product teams to turn complex business requirements into clean and extensible APIs
Possess strong technical, analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills with the ability to visualize and document processes
Proficient at using appropriate security, documentation, and/or monitoring best practices
Familiar with Agile/Scrum methodologies
Comfortable using AI tooling, preferably Claude, to support solution design, system architecture, and software implementation in day-to-day engineering work
Nice to Have: Experience supporting white-label or multi-tenant product architectures
Experience with distributed messaging systems such as Apache Kafka
Experience with Python as well as test frameworks such as pytest or unittest
Experience with Node.js and Typescript
Experience with streaming services such as Twitch
Experience with fullstack development and contributing to frontend work