Software Engineer, Backend Developer, Cloud Engineer - Software

This contractor will join the backend engineering team as a normal, active team member. The technical designs and approach are already defined; this role is focused on implementation, delivery, and production readiness of planned work.

Day-to-day collaboration will primarily be with the engineering team, with occasional interface points with UI engineering, UX design, and Product to align on integration touchpoints and acceptance criteria.

All experience-based minimums are set to 2+ years.

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience (or equivalent).
• 2+ years implementing backend services and APIs in production (language/framework flexible; Java and similar stacks are welcome).
• 2+ years working with API integrations (e.g., REST and/or gRPC) and collaborating through code review and CI workflows.
• 2+ years experience working with common service components such as relational or No
  
  SQL data stores, caching, and/or messaging/eventing (exact mix can vary).
• Comfort operating in a team delivery environment: incremental shipping, ownership of tests, and clear

• Experience implementing services that support multiple internal consumers (platform/service mindset).
• Experience contributing to phased migrations or service adoption rollouts.
• Familiarity with observability practices (metrics, tracing/logging patterns) and operating services in production.
• Experience collaborating across backend and UI teams to support end-to-end feature delivery.