Senior Backend Engineer, Java

About the role

In a rotational capacity, you'll gain broad platform exposure and accelerated career growth. This role offers meaningful experience across multiple teams and products before finding your long-term home within our engineering organization.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product managers, designers, QA analysts, automation engineers, and other web and mobile engineers to solve meaningful problems for parents, children, and practitioners across our platforms.
• Create high-quality software with deep knowledge of relational databases, Hibernate, and the Spring Framework.
• Work with modern technologies including AI-powered features that directly impact millions of families.

Requirements

• 5+ years of Java development experience
• Experience in the Spring Framework and Spring Boot
• Proven experience delivering software applications/features from inception to shipping within a cross-functional team environment
• Object Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns
• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases and ORM technologies (Hibernate)
• Experience with AI development tooling and integrations (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, or similar AI-powered CLI's and IDE's)
• Proficiency with AI-assisted development workflows including code generation, debugging assistance, automated testing, documentation creation, and architectural exploration

Qualifications

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with Atlassian products for CI/CD (Bitbucket Pipelines, Jira, Confluence)
• Experience with Confluent Cloud (Kafka)
• Experience with writing and maintaining tests
• Experience with iterative, agile based software delivery processes
• Experience working across multiple product teams or in rotational capacities
• Strong judgment in AI-assisted development - effectively leveraging AI tools to accelerate engineering across all domains while maintaining code ownership, quality standards, and using AI capabilities to enhance rather than replace engineering rigor.

Skills

• Curious operator
• Adaptable relationship builder
• Confident craftsperson with an AI-first approach
• Champion of inclusion and bridge-building collaborator
• Low ego, high integrity
• Pragmatic optimizer and growth-oriented learner

Benefits

• Medical: In Tandem pays 100% of the premium for employees AND 99% for all additional family members
• 401k: Up to a 4% match with immediate vesting
• Paid leave for all new parents
• Learning & Development stipend for employees
• Paid Time Off: 11 Holidays + Winter Break (3 Days) + Volunteer Time Off (1 Day) + Floating Holiday (1 Day)
• Personal Time Off: 15 days for 0-1 years of employment + 20 days for 1-3 years of employment

Pay

$120,000 - $140,000 / year

Schedule

Remote USA - In Tandem