Sr. Backend Engineer

📋 Description Work as part of the platform team, improving the backend systems, tooling, and practices that other Identify automation opportunities across the engineering workflow (repetitive manual work, slow or Enable other teams: build and maintain shared services, libraries, and APIs, make the right way the Own security fixes and dependency updates across our backend systems: triage vulnerabilities, plan Identify and diagnose performance bottlenecks, and recognize scalability limits before they become Reason about concurrency, failure modes, and reliability across APIs and integrations. 🎯 Requirements 5+ years of professional backend development using Java, with a meaningful track record of shipping Strong system design: you make sound architectural decisions, think about tradeoffs, edge cases Strong backend fundamentals: API design, integrations, concurrency, failure modes, and service Deep understanding of database behavior: data modeling, query design, indexing, and the performance Proven ability to diagnose performance bottlenecks and debug complex production issues to root Comfortable working in an existing, evolving codebase: you can get up to speed quickly, make safe