Senior Software Engineer

Blu Juniper is an AI and optimization company building advanced software systems for complex operational environments. Our work spans cloud-native platforms, computer vision, natural language processing, data infrastructure, secure collaboration, and mission-focused AI/ML applications.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help design, build, and scale the backend systems that power advanced computer vision, audio, navigation, and natural language processing applications. This is a hands‑on engineering role for someone who can write production‑quality Go, design reliable backend services, and work across distributed systems, data models, APIs, authentication, authorization, and real‑time communication infrastructure.

$160,000 - $225,000 per year

Compensation will be based on experience, location, and qualifications. Blu Juniper offers competitive compensation and benefits for eligible employees.
Employees are eligible for bonuses and stock options on top of salary.

Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States and must be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance. Certain customer, contract, or regulatory requirements may require additional eligibility verification.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will help build secure, scalable, and maintainable backend services using Go. You will work across microservices, data schemas, messaging systems, real‑time media infrastructure, access control systems, and cloud‑based backend architecture.

This role is ideal for an engineer with strong production experience in Go who enjoys building clean backend infrastructure, designing durable data models, and solving complex distributed systems problems. Go will be the required implementation language for this role.

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services using Go.
• Build cloud‑based, microservice‑oriented systems that are reliable, observable, secure, and maintainable.
• Develop service‑to‑service communication patterns, API contracts, event flows, and integration points between distributed services.
• Design and maintain data schemas, domain models, persistence strategies, and data access patterns across backend systems.
• Build backend infrastructure for authentication, authorization, role‑based access control, and customer onboarding workflows.
• Build event‑driven systems using Apache Kafka
• Support real‑time communication capabilities, including WebRTC and Live Kit
• Partner with computer vision, NLP, AI/ML, frontend, Dev Ops, and security stakeholders to translate requirements into well‑structured backend systems.
• Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions, implementation planning, and engineering tradeoff decisions.
• Improve system performance, scalability, reliability, and debuggability across production services.

• 5+ years of professional backend or systems engineering experience.
• Strong production experience building backend systems in Go.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance.
• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
• Experience designing and operating cloud‑based architectures on AWS
• Experience working on or with AI/ML platforms and communicating with AI/ML teams.
• Strong understanding of microservice architecture, service boundaries, API design, inter‑service communication, and distributed systems tradeoffs.
• Experience with data modeling, schema design, relational and/or non‑relational databases, and long‑term data maintainability.
• Experience designing authentication and authorization systems, including role‑based access control.
• Strong debugging and performance‑analysis skills in production backend systems.
• Ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

• Hands‑on experience with WebRTC, Live Kit, or other real‑time media streaming systems, prefarably for Audio and Video.
• Experience with Apache Kafka, event‑driven architectures, message queues, or stream‑processing systems.
• Experience building backend systems for real‑time collaboration.
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