Job Description

1. Job Summary

We are looking for a distinguished Staff Software Engineer specializing in Java to join our core engineering team. In this role, you will be a technical leader and a key influencer of our engineering culture and technical strategy. As a Staff Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, building, and evolving our most critical backend systems and services. You will tackle complex architectural challenges, mentor other engineers, and set the standard for engineering excellence across the organization. The ideal candidate is a passionate, hands-on developer with deep expertise in the Java ecosystem and a history of building scalable, resilient, and high-performance software.

2. Key Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership & Vision: Provide technical leadership across multiple teams. Influence the long-term technical vision and roadmap, making key architectural decisions that shape the future of our platform.
• System Design & Architecture: Lead the design and implementation of complex, large-scale, and distributed systems. Drive best practices in microservices architecture, API design, and cloud-native development.
• Hands-On Development: Remain deeply hands-on, writing clean, maintainable, and high-quality code for critical-path services and libraries. Set the bar for code quality through exemplary work and rigorous code reviews.
• Mentorship & Coaching: Mentor and coach senior engineers, helping them grow into future technical leaders. Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Problem Solving: Tackle the most challenging technical problems, from debugging complex production issues to designing novel solutions for performance and scalability.
• Cross-Team Impact: Work across organizational boundaries to drive alignment on technical standards, patterns, and best practices. Collaborate with product, infrastructure, and security teams to deliver robust and secure solutions.
• Innovation: Stay at the forefront of technology trends. Research, evaluate, and prototype new technologies and frameworks that can enhance our platform and engineering velocity.

3. Required Qualifications

• Experience: Extensive software development experience with a proven track record of technical leadership in a senior, principal, or staff-level role.
• Java Expertise: Expert-level knowledge of Java and its ecosystem, including the JVM, memory management, and concurrency.
• Frameworks: Deep experience with modern Java frameworks, particularly Spring Boot, for building microservices and RESTful APIs.
• System Design: Proven ability to design and architect complex, scalable, and fault-tolerant distributed systems.
• Databases: Strong experience with both relational (e.g., PostgreSQL, Oracle) and NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB, Redis) databases.
• Communication: Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences.

4. Preferred Qualifications

• Cloud-Native Technologies: Extensive experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Messaging Systems: Experience with message brokers and event-streaming platforms such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or SQS.
• CI/CD & DevOps: Strong understanding of CI/CD principles and experience with tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Tekton.
• Observability: Experience with monitoring, logging, and tracing tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Jaeger).
• Agile Methodologies: Experience thriving in a fast-paced, Agile development environment.

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Applications Development

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Time Type:

Full time

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Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

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Other Relevant Skills

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