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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