Staff Engineer - Backend/Java

Role overview

Provide hands-on technical leadership for backend systems and shared capabilities that support customer-facing digital products. The role spans architecture, implementation, and production operations, while setting engineering standards and guiding complex work across teams.

Responsibilities

- Lead the technical delivery of complex backend systems, from initial design through implementation, testing, deployment, and refinement. - Translate product and roadmap needs into architectural choices that support scale and long-term maintainability. - Establish and reinforce practices for software quality, testability, observability, and clear technical documentation. - Partner with product, design, and engineering stakeholders to make decisions and coordinate work across teams. - Help resolve production incidents through an on-call rotation and drive diagnosis and remediation. - Facilitate design discussions and code reviews, remove blockers, and coach engineers at different levels.

Requirements

- 7 or more years of experience building scalable, performant distributed backend systems. - Strong backend engineering and architecture skills, including familiarity with clean code, layered or hexagonal approaches, and domain-driven design. Spring, Java, or Kotlin experience is useful. - Knowledge of logging, monitoring, and tracing in distributed environments. - Track record of effective Agile delivery and process improvement across teams. - Ability to explain technical trade-offs clearly to engineers, leaders, and nontechnical partners. - Collaborative, adaptable approach in a fast-moving environment.

Nice to have

- Background in sports, gaming, or content delivery. - Experience with Kotlin, Java, or Go; Kafka or Amazon SQS; and event-driven systems. - Familiarity with Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and cloud-native infrastructure. - Ability to contribute across both legacy and newly built systems.

Benefits and work setup

The listing references full-time employment and benefits but does not specify the benefit package or work location.