Senior Backend Engineer - REMOTE

Senior Backend Engineer - REMOTE About the role

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will make an impact by shaping the architecture and delivery of scalable backend services that support reporting, data access, scheduled processing, and data export. You will be a valued member of the engineering team and work collaboratively with product, quality assurance, and partner engineering teams to deliver secure, reliable, and maintainable solutions. In this role, you will:

• Own the technical roadmap for backend services supporting reporting, data access, scheduled processing, and export or delivery capabilities.
• Drive and document architectural decisions across interdependent services and data sources while balancing immediate delivery needs with long-term technical health.
• Establish and enforce engineering standards for code quality, testing, API design, security, observability, and technical debt management.
• Translate ambiguous requirements into executable technical plans, review designs and code, resolve complex engineering challenges, and contribute hands-on code for high-risk or high-ambiguity work.
• Partner with product, quality assurance, engineering teams, and vendors on scope, sequencing, dependencies, platform evaluations, and architecture decisions while mentoring engineers and strengthening technical judgment across the team. Qualifications: · 12+ years of experience building and operating production backend systems, including demonstrated formal or informal technical leadership. · Strong hands-on experience with Java and Spring or another modern backend language and framework, along with scalable distributed application design. · Proven ownership of architecture across multiple services, including REST API and service contract design, authentication and authorization patterns, and distributed-system security tradeoffs. · Strong relational database expertise covering schema design, migrations, query performance, and system-level da