Staff Engineer - Backend​/Java

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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