Software Engineer - Backend

This is a Director-level backend engineering role centered on building and operating production-grade services. The position focuses on backend services and APIs, distributed systems, and long-term production resilience, using Java and Python and related technologies.

Location and Salary

• Location: New York, NY (onsite)
• Compensation: USD 120,000 - 170,000 per yearly
• Minimum experience: 4 years

Responsibilities

• Design and build new backend services and APIs from scratch
• Work on distributed systems that meet real scalability, latency, and reliability constraints
• Make deliberate trade-offs across performance, consistency, and system complexity
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code that others enjoy working with
• Own services end-to-end across design, build, deploy, and operate
• Debug production issues and improve system resilience over time

Required Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in Java and Python for backend engineering
• Solid understanding of HTTP fundamentals
• Strong grasp of object-oriented design, clean class modeling, and design patterns for multi-threaded and event-driven systems
• Good command of data structures and collections, including practical selection criteria
• Hands-on experience with multi-threaded and event-driven systems
• Awareness of memory usage, time complexity, and space complexity
• Experience with dependency injection and lifecycle management
• Understanding of AOP concepts such as advice, pointcuts, and cross-cutting concerns
• Experience with transaction management
• Familiarity with connection pools and resource management
• Experience designing read and write APIs with stability, scalability, and performance in mind
• Exposure to event-driven systems, pub-sub patterns, and fault tolerance
• Familiarity with caching strategies, including local and distributed approaches
• Practical understanding of logging, monitoring, and observability
• Working knowledge of security fundamentals, including authentication, authorization, and encryption
• Ability to think through problems clearly and communicate reasoning during problem solving
• Comfort working without perfectly defined requirements while prioritizing clarity, correctness, and simplicity
• Ability to explain design choices and follow ownership through to resolution
• Strong proficiency in Java and Python for backend application development
• Solid understanding of object-oriented design, design patterns, and data structures
• 4+ years of relevant experience
• Experience building scalable REST APIs and distributed systems
• Hands-on experience with multi-threaded and event-driven systems
• Experience with messaging and pub-sub systems and event-driven architectures
• Exposure to batch processing and data pipeline technologies
• Knowledge of the Spring Framework, including dependency injection, AOP, and transaction management
• Familiarity with databases, caching, connection pooling, and resource management
• Understanding of security fundamentals, logging, monitoring, and observability
• Experience with unit testing, CI/CD pipelines, and agile development practices
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
• Comfort collaborating with business stakeholders and working in globally distributed teams
• Nice to Have: Experience with BDD testing frameworks and tools

Technologies

• Java
• Python
• HTTP
• AOP
• Object-Oriented Design
• Spring Framework
• REST APIs
• pub-sub
• Caching
• Dependency Injection
• Transaction Management
• Connection Pools
• Databases
• Logging
• Monitoring
• Observability
• Authentication
• Authorization
• Encryption
• Unit Testing
• CI/CD Pipelines
• Agile Development Practices
• BDD Testing Frameworks
• Data Pipelines
• Event-Driven Architectures
• Messaging / Pub-Sub Systems

Interview Process

• Hands-on, real-world problem discussions
• No “tell me about yourself” or resume walkthroughs
• Emphasis on how you think, design, and reason
• Interactive conversations focused on reasoning rather than trivia or puzzle solving

How You Work

• Think out loud and reason through problems
• Work effectively even when requirements are not perfectly defined
• Prioritize clarity, correctness, and simplicity
• Explain the rationale behind design choices
• Take ownership and drive issues through to resolution

What You Can Expect

• Work on meaningful systems with real impact
• Engineering culture focused on depth over buzzwords
• Opportunity to grow into system design and ownership roles
• Smart peers working on real problems, with space to think

Open Collaboration Environment

• Comfort working in globally distributed teams and collaborating with business stakeholders
• Working in an open environment where everyone can express their views and make significant contributions