Backend Software Engineer

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. Design service boundaries, data models, and REST API contracts .

Posted 9/18/2026full-timePortland • Oregon • United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $90,000 - $120,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in designing and building event-driven microservices, with a strong focus on API design, data modeling, and resilient service architecture. Proficient in Java, Spring Boot, and GCP technologies, ensuring the delivery of reliable and observable production code.

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Java 18+Spring Boot/Spring EcosystemGCP Pub/SubSQL and Data ModellingAPI Design

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Hard Skills

Event-Driven MicroservicesData ModelsREST API ContractsConcurrencyMemory ModelGarbage CollectionException HierarchyAsynchronous ProcessingObservability ToolingSecurity Integrations

Tools & Technologies

GCPPub/SubDataflowBigQueryKubernetes

Industry Keywords

MicroservicesEvent SourcingCQRSIntegration LayersAccess-Control Systems

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKafkaKubernetesMicroservicesSpringSpring BootSpringBootSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design service boundaries, data models, and REST API contracts
Build event-driven microservices using GCP Pub/Sub
Handle asynchronous processing, backpressure, and dead-letter queues
Develop a webhook-triggered survey automation engine
Build reliable, auditable, event-driven workflows for survey delivery
Develop resilient and observable services with retries, timeouts, circuit breakers, structured logging, metrics, and tracing
Implement security and SSO integrations for enterprise clients
Design permission and access-control systems for matrix organizational hierarchies
Build integration layers connecting enterprise data sources to the platform
Deliver correct, observable, and resilient production code
Report to the CTO

Requirements

What you’ll need

Must be authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship
Student Visas and H-1B are not supported
Java 18+
JVM-level understanding of concurrency, memory model, garbage collection, and exception hierarchy
Spring Boot/Spring ecosystem depth, or deep dependency injection and IoC understanding from another framework
SQL and data modelling skills, including joins, aggregations, window functions, indexes, and N+1 problem awareness
API design knowledge, including versioning, error semantics, and idempotency
Systems thinking under failure, including retries, timeouts, idempotency, and consistency
Experience building systems that handle real load, including personal or academic projects
GCP experience with Pub/Sub, Dataflow, BigQuery, or Vertex AI is a bonus
Kafka or other message queue experience is a bonus
Kubernetes and container orchestration experience is a bonus
Event sourcing or CQRS experience is a bonus
Observability tooling experience is a bonus

Benefits

Comp & perks

Ability-based hiring rather than tenure-based hiring
Challenging interview process assessing fundamentals, systems thinking, and problem-solving