LOCAL Backend Software Engineer (Java/Spring)

This role begins with 100% backend engineering focused on Spring Boot application development and microservices. The engineer will build, maintain, and enhance backend services while playing a key role in rewriting and modernizing existing applications. Work includes refactoring legacy systems for improved maintainability, adding new capabilities, and contributing to large scale system modernization and scaling initiatives as the team expands to support additional internal customers. You will maintain deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions and support data processing logic via Python or Airflow when needed. Responsibilities also include troubleshooting issues using AWS CloudWatch, ensuring backend systems remain stable, reliable, and well architected. Although this role starts with 0% frontend work, future frontend involvement is possible based on team needs. The position is ideal for someone who thrives in a collaborative environment, learns quickly, writes clean and scalable code, and contributes actively to architecture, design, and overall engineering culture.

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• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience

• Strong Java development background; Spring Boot strongly preferred

• Experience with backend design patterns and architectural principles

• Comfort with Java unit testing and writing clean, maintainable, well structured code

• AWS troubleshooting skills (e.g., CloudWatch)

• Strong communicator with a collaborative, team focused mindset

• Understanding of authentication/authorization concepts (AuthN/AuthZ), RBAC

• Experience scaling application stacks from tens/hundreds of users to hundreds of thousands

• Familiarity with Python or Airflow for data processing is beneficial

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.