Backend Software Engineer

Location

Oregon

Posted

5 days ago

Salary

$90K / year

Seniority

Senior

Job Description

Backend Software Engineer

ClearlyRated

• Real systems that enterprise clients depend on. • System, Database and API design as a first-class skill. • Event-driven microservices on GCP Pub/Sub. • Webhook-triggered survey automation engine. • Resilient, observable services. • Security and SSO integration for enterprise clients with complex credential and access models. • Permission and access control systems that reflect matrix organizational hierarchies. • An integration layer that connects enterprise data sources to our platform through well-designed service interfaces.

Job Requirements

  • Java you understand at the JVM level.
  • Spring Boot / Spring ecosystem depth.
  • SQL and data modelling confidence.
  • API design instincts.
  • Systems thinking under failure.
  • You’ve built something that handles real load.
  • .NET / C# experience is a genuine plus.
  • GCP experience: Pub/Sub, Dataflow, BigQuery, Vertex AI
  • Kafka or other message queue experience: consumer groups, offset management, partition strategy
  • Kubernetes and container orchestration
  • Event sourcing or CQRS patterns
  • Experience with observability tooling — distributed tracing, structured logging, alerting on the things that matter

Benefits

  • We hire on ability, not tenure.
  • We don't care whether your experience comes from a top university, a bootcamp, an open-source project, or a side hustle you built at 2am.
  • Our interview process is deliberately hard. If you make it through, you'll know you earned it, and so will we.
  • We test fundamentals, systems thinking, and the ability to reason through problems you haven't seen before.
  • We don't ask you to recite design patterns. We ask you to think.
  • Our backend interview tests: systems design, API design, distributed system failure modes, Java fundamentals and JVM reasoning, and SQL.

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