Staff Engineer, Backend APIs

* Design, build, and evolve microservice‑based API products that power reporting and analytics applications.
* Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables with your technical expertise
* Collaborate daily with Product, UI, and Data engineers to take features end‑to‑end — from requirements and design to delivery.
* Design and build APIs that are intuitive and easy to consume: clear contracts (OpenAPI/gRPC), well-documented, versioning strategies, pagination, filtering, batching, and strong SLAs/SLOs.
* Shape data access patterns: schemas, query plans, caching, and performance tuning in read/writes for big data.
* Champion code quality: well‑tested, observable, maintainable code, thoughtful reviews, design docs, and pragmatic documentation.
* Own services in production: dashboards, alerting, capacity and load testing, cost‑aware design, and reliability improvements.
* Leverage AI-assisted tools in your development process
* Mentor teammates, share knowledge, and help raise the technical bar across the organization.
* 8+ years of relevant work experience in software development.
* Deep understanding of microservice fundamentals (service boundaries, resiliency, observability, CI/CD) and API design at scale.
* Primary development experience in Java for high-throughput, low-latency back-end web services.

Experience with asynchronous programming patterns, high levels of concurrency, and with frameworks such as Vert.x and Dropwizard is highly desirable.
* Experience working in roles where project success was heavily dependent on your personal design and development contributions, your technical leadership and broad expertise.
* A track record of shipping well‑tested, production‑grade APIs used by UI applications and direct API consumers.
* Experience with development and CI tools like Maven, git, containerization with Docker, a build management system like Codebuild or Jenkins, and Jira
* Clear, empathetic communication and a collaborative mindset.
* Exposure to cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and container orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes).
* Familiarity with functional programming concepts and Scala FP libraries.
* Experience with event‑driven or streaming architectures.
* Understanding of auth

N/Z patterns (OAuth2/JWT), rate limiting, and API security.
* Observability tools and practices (metrics, tracing, logs) and load/perf testing.
* Knowledge of Real-Time Bidding (RTB), SSPs, DSPs, and ad delivery systems is a strong plus.
* Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure automation tools.
**** Perks and Benefits**:
*** Comprehensive Healthcare Coverage from Day One
* Generous Time Off
* Holiday Breaks and Quarterly Wellness Days
* Equity and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
* Family-Focused Benefits and Parental Leave
* 401k Retirement Savings Plan with Employer Match
* Disability and Life Insurance
* Cell Phone Subsidy
* Fitness and Wellness Reimbursement
* Having access to the Company’s Confidential Information or trade secrets including data related to customers, clients, vendors, business partners, or suppliers
* Work with cross teams  to access datasets, databases, formulas, algorithms, tools, products, prototypes, systems applications, and technologies in any stage of development
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