Senior Software Engineer, Back-End – Power Packs
Summary
Senior backend engineer building and scaling Java/Spring Boot services in AWS, with serverless, containers, and distributed systems; collaborates across the SDLC and leverages AI tooling to accelerate delivery.
Responsibilities
- 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