Senior Backend Java Engineer (Chicago Hybrid)

Responsibilities

• Architectural Ownership: Propose and facilitate technical discussions to arrive at agreed-upon architectural plans for high-throughput device provisioning, zero-touch enrollment, and lifecycle management services.
• Contract Definition & Coordination: Own the APIs for the Device Management Domain, coordinating with external hardware and consumer teams to ensure seamless integration, rapid registration, and data integrity.
• Feature Grooming & Delegation: Groom technical stories from Product Management requirements and break down complex tasks for the team to enable rapid, parallel development.
• Database & Storage Leadership: Lead the implementation, optimization, and scaling of relational data layers using AlloyDB (and PostgreSQL), ensuring data integrity, high availability, and efficient indexing for millions of device records.
• Advanced AI Engineering: Architect and implement advanced prompt engineering workflows utilizing Anthropic Claude to automate configuration generation, analyze complex device logs, and power conversational provisioning assistants.
• Quality, Review & Mentorship: Conduct thorough code reviews, serving as a trusted source to catch edge cases, security gaps, and performance bottlenecks, while actively mentoring junior and mid-level engineers.
• Pipeline & Tooling Transformation: Actively contribute to development pipeline improvements (e.g., automated guardrails, RAG systems, and AI coding assistants) to significantly cut down PR cycle times.

Requirements

• Experience & Impact: Bachelor’s degree plus 5+ years of progressive technical experience, demonstrating successful ownership of complex, distributed features and a track record of mentoring technical peers.
• Database Mastery: Practical, deep experience managing and optimizing Postgres-based databases (ideally GCP AlloyDB) for high-concurrency write/read profiles.
• GCP Proficiency: Proven ability to deploy, manage, and scale microservices on GCP (GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Storage, and database management).
• API/Contract Ownership: Extensive experience designing robust service contracts and managing dependencies between Python and Java microservices.
• Claude & Prompt Engineering: Practical experience leveraging Anthropic Claude (or similar advanced LLMs) for systemic prompt design, structured data extraction, and log parsing.
• System Integrity: Deep understanding of scale challenges, fault-tolerant design, and the ability to anticipate and address stress points within high-availability provisioning architectures.

Pay

Target Base Salary Range: $130,000 USD - $150,000 USD

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree with 5+ engineering experience AND 4+ years of Java experience
• Must be a U.S. citizen with the ability to obtain necessary security clearance as required by government contract.

Travel Requirements

None

Relocation Provided

None

Position Type

Experienced

Referral Payment Plan

No