Senior Java engineer responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable, secure backend systems using Java and modern frameworks. Participate in architecture, collaborate with product and security teams, write maintainable code, and adopt AI-assisted development tools while contributing to open-source efforts.
About the Role
We are seeking a Senior-Level Software Engineer with expertise in Java to join our Never-Ending Support team. In this role, you will be responsible for helping our team deliver new products and continue to advance our platform, ensuring availability and security for these products.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain high-quality software solutions using Java and popular Java frameworks - such as Spring.
Build platform components and contribute to product meta-development, partnering with open-source contributors, security experts, and internal stakeholders to expand customer technology choices. - Ensure system scalability, reliability, and security through best practices and modern development techniques.
- Participate in architectural decisions and help drive long-term technical direction.
- Work closely with product managers, designers, and fellow engineers to deliver features that align with business objectives.
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code while following industry best practices.
- Stay up to date with emerging technologies, frameworks, and methodologies to continuously enhance the development process.
- Embrace AI-assisted development as a core part of your workflow; most of the responsibilities above can, and often will, be accomplished in partnership with frontier models and agentic coding tools.
Required Qualifications
- Experience with backend (mostly Java) technologies including Java experience (e.g., Spring, Quarkus, Hibernate, Struts, etc)
- Experience with Java build and deploy tools (Maven, Gradle, etc)
- Experience with building secure and scalable software development lifecycle infrastructure (build, test, deploy)
- Experience with AI-assisted development tools is not required, but you should bring the curiosity and drive to become an expert with them and with the rapidly evolving strategies for using them well
- Excellent problem-solving skills and a detail-oriented mindset.
- Effective communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a remote or distributed team environment.
- Passion for open-source software and community collaboration
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