Senior Backend Engineer

About the role

We're looking for a senior backend engineer to own the architecture underneath our platform ecosystem: Twist (our streaming app), the Analytics Engine, and a Prediction Engine developed in partnership with our Data Science Lead.

Responsibilities

• The core backend architecture that spans Twist, Analytics Engine, Prediction Engine, and our Ecommerce platform.
• The pipes behind the Analytics Engine and Prediction Engine - starting from ingestion, sentiment analysis, dashboards, to campaign attribution.
• Logging, monitoring, and alerting that catches problems before they become incidents.
• The technical judgment of the engineers around you, through review and direct mentorship.

Requirements

• Ridiculously driven: you'd build this even if no one was watching.
• 6+ years shipping and owning distributed, production-grade backend systems.
• Expert in Java EE or Kotlin.
• Experience building microservices in Java/Kotlin, with event-driven architecture and message queues (Kafka, Flink, or equivalent), exposed via REST and gRPC contracts.
• Comfortable owning infrastructure on AWS/GCP/Azure with Docker and Kubernetes.
• You've made architecture decisions that other teams had to live with, and you can own them.
• You can explain a hard technical tradeoff to someone who doesn't write code.

Nice to Have

• Media, streaming, or gig-economy background.
• CDN and video streaming protocol experience (HLS, DASH).
• Payment gateway integration work.
• Real-time/streaming data processing.
• Familiarity with compliance basics, such as KYC, anti-fraud, data privacy.
• Protobuf/gRPC contract design across polyglot services.
• Experience with JVM performance tuning and GC diagnostics.