Java Backend Engineer

About the role

Harness cutting-edge tools like Claude Code to accelerate the development lifecycle, allowing you to focus on high-level architecture and solving complex distributed systems challenges while AI handles the heavy lifting of boilerplate and routine refactoring.

Take the lead in designing and developing robust, scalable, and high-performance backend systems and APIs that power our innovative video surveillance platform. Collaborate closely with visionary front-end developers, enthusiastic product managers, and other passionate stakeholders to transform requirements into technical specifications that drive our platform's evolution.

Optimize and fine-tune our backend systems for an unparalleled user experience, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and lightning-fast performance. Optimize and fine-tune our backend systems for an unparalleled user experience, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and lightning-fast performance.

Spread your wings and craft ingenious data storage, retrieval, and processing mechanisms that ensure our platform soars to the clouds and beyond. Architect and maintain APIs that seamlessly connect our platform with external systems and partners, unleashing the true potential of collaboration.

Safeguard our platform's security and integrity by implementing best practices for authentication, authorization, and data protection, ensuring our customers' peace of mind. Be a troubleshooting champion, swiftly resolving issues related to our backend systems while working closely with our support team and users, providing top-notch solutions with unrivaled speed and precision.

Embrace the spirit of teamwork by participating in code reviews, contributing to continuous improvement, and sharing knowledge within our vibrant community.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop robust, scalable, and high-performance backend systems and APIs that power our innovative video surveillance platform.
• Collaborate closely with visionary front-end developers, enthusiastic product managers, and other passionate stakeholders to transform requirements into technical specifications that drive our platform's evolution.
• Optimize and fine-tune our backend systems for an unparalleled user experience, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and lightning-fast performance.
• Spread your wings and craft ingenious data storage, retrieval, and processing mechanisms that ensure our platform soars to the clouds and beyond.
• Architect and maintain APIs that seamlessly connect our platform with external systems and partners, unleashing the true potential of collaboration.
• Safeguard our platform's security and integrity by implementing best practices for authentication, authorization, and data protection, ensuring our customers' peace of mind.
• Be a troubleshooting champion, swiftly resolving issues related to our backend systems while working closely with our support team and users, providing top-notch solutions with unrivaled speed and precision.
• Embrace the spirit of teamwork by participating in code reviews, contributing to continuous improvement, and sharing knowledge within our vibrant community.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• 5-7 years of experience building and delivering cloud-based services and applications in a CI/CD environment via containerization technologies including Docker etc.
• Proven mastery of modern managed languages including but not limited to Java.
• Familiarity with backing stores and databases including both SQL/NoSQL such as Postgres, Cassandra desirable.
• History of delivering products built on multiple modern frameworks.
• Demonstrated ability to not only code, but also define, document, debug and maintain Fullstack applications.
• An Agile mentality is required as we strive every sprint to design, code, test and deliver solutions to our customers and in turn react and pivot based upon their feedback.
• Understanding and expertise in the security, surveillance, or IoT domains is a huge plus.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills. Should be equally capable of clarifying design points with architects and product owners as well as working with customer.

Qualifications

• Experience with cloud-based services and applications in a CI/CD environment via containerization technologies including Docker etc.
• Mastery of modern managed languages including but not limited to Java.
• Familiarity with backing stores and databases including both SQL/NoSQL such as Postgres, Cassandra desirable.
• History of delivering products built on multiple modern frameworks.
• Demonstrated ability to define, document, debug and maintain Fullstack applications.
• An Agile mentality is required as we strive every sprint to design, code, test and deliver solutions to our customers and in turn react and pivot based upon their feedback.
• Understanding and expertise in the security, surveillance, or IoT domains is a huge plus.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Skills

• Modern managed languages (Java)
• Backing stores and databases (Postgres, Cassandra)
• Multiple modern frameworks
• Agile methodologies
• Security, surveillance, or IoT domains
• Excellent communication skills

Benefits

• Equal Employment Opportunity Employer
• Global Headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland, and Austin, Texas
• International Offices in Amsterdam, London, Bangalore, and Tokyo
• Leveraging open APIs and cyber-secure cloud infrastructure
• Reshaping the future of physical security

Pay

Competitive salary commensurate with experience.

Schedule

Full-time position.

Company

Brivo and Eagle Eye Networks have come together to create a category-defining, cloud-first platform at the intersection of AI and the physical world. Our mission is simple and ambitious: to make physical spaces safer, smarter, and more autonomous—from single-site businesses to global enterprises. As the unified global leaders in cloud-based access control and video surveillance, we provide a comprehensive digital foundation for the built environment. By combining Brivo’s pioneering building access platform with Eagle Eye’s AI-powered video management system (VMS), we have created a system of intelligence that protects over 600 million square feet across 90+ countries. Every door, camera, and credential in our ecosystem acts as a real-time sensor, leveraging AI to prevent incidents, improve operations, and enable entirely new workflows across sectors, including commercial real estate, retail, healthcare, education, and critical infrastructure. Join us as we build the world’s most robust platform for video intelligence and smart space automation. Learn more at www.brivo.com.