Software Engineer — Backend

Software Engineer — Backend (Java/Kotlin, Spring Boot, AWS)

Location: LATAM (Remote) | Schedule: US Central time zone | Type: Full-time / Contract | Seats available: 3

About the Role

We're hiring three Backend Software Engineers to join the platform team behind our Question Platform. This team owns engineering work the broader team hasn't had the bandwidth to get to — the kind of work every strong engineering org needs but often can't staff fast enough to keep up with.

You'll work across compliance and maintenance initiatives, cost optimization, observability improvements, experiment clean-up, and internal operational tooling — high-impact, high-visibility work that directly improves the platform's stability and efficiency.

This is a strictly backend role. Frontend-oriented developers are not a fit for this team.

What You'll Do
Build and maintain backend services in Java/Kotlin using Spring Boot
Design and query data across MongoDB Atlas and Aurora MySQL
Develop and consume GraphQL APIs via Netflix DGS
Deploy and operate services on AWS
Contribute to cost-saving and observability initiatives with measurable outcomes
Partner with the team to reduce technical debt, clean up stale experiments, and improve operational tooling
Work core hours aligned with US Central time
What We're Looking For

Required:

3–5 years of professional backend software engineering experience
Strong hands-on experience with Java and/or Kotlin
Production experience with Spring Boot
Hands-on experience with AWS
Direct, production experience with MongoDB Atlas
Direct, production experience with Amazon Aurora (MySQL)
Experience building or consuming GraphQL APIs, ideally via Netflix DGS (or a comparable server-side GraphQL implementation)
Comfortable working core hours in US Central time zone
Strong written and spoken English

Strongly preferred:

A track record of contributing to measurable cost savings or observability improvements in a production environment
Experience with compliance-driven or maintenance-heavy engineering work
Comfort working independently on deferred/backlog-style engineering priorities, not just greenfield feature work
What Makes a Strong Candidate

We're specifically looking for engineers who can speak directly to hands-on production experience with Aurora MySQL and MongoDB Atlas as a datastore pair, and who have personally authored GraphQL APIs on the server side (Netflix DGS or equivalent) — rather than only consuming or integrating with GraphQL.

Location & Logistics
Open to candidates based in LATAM
Remote position

Location: Remote - Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela

Skills required for this job:

• AWS
• Back-end development
• Compliance management
• GraphQL
• Java
• Kotlin
• MongoDB
• MySQL
• Observability
• Spring Boot