Staff Software Engineer, AI – Backend

Role Overview

• Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable, and high-performance object oriented code in our backend services.
• Develop public REST APIs using Java and internal gRPC APIs for inter-service and inter-system communication.
• Craft systems designs, lead design decisions, and drive alignment with other senior engineers.
• Write automated unit tests, integration tests, end-to-end tests, concurrency tests, load/performance tests.
• Analyze existing systems to identify bottlenecks, tech debt, and implement scalability, and stability improvements.
• Implement automation for testing, monitoring, healing, and scaling applications, continuous integration and deployment to reduce time to market.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and other engineers, to define and implement new features.
• Conduct code reviews (comment, approve, seek revisions, merge), mentor junior and mid-level engineers, and actively promote engineering best practices.
• Dive deep and troubleshoot complex issues, devise fixes, author root cause analysis documents, and ensure lasting performance and reliability.
• Conduct objective and comparative analyses of competing technologies to advise the team of pros and cons of a technology solution.
• Maintain robust documentation (design docs, run books, change management docs, and readiness plans).
• Provide live-site support for production applications by monitoring systems, ensuring rapid incident resolution, and driving continuous improvement.
• Drive cross-team projects as a single-threaded-owner (STO) or tech lead, and actively unblock other engineers to make progress.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering
• 5-8 years of professional experience in software engineering
• Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms, object-oriented design, and problem-solving skills
• Expertise in designing and developing internet-scale services with scalability, availability, security, and reliability design tenets
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and a collaborative and empathetic mindset
• Proficiency in backend development, with proficiency expertise in Java or C#, and frameworks like SpringBoot, building and optimizing RESTful APIs, ODATA framework, and SQL
• Ability to leverage AI-enabled development tools such as Cursor AI, Kiro and GitHub Copilot to accelerate feature delivery, automate documentation, and enhance code quality.
• Master’s degree in computer science or software engineering is preferred
• 10 years of experience in software engineering is preferred
• Experience with event-driven architecture and tools like Kafka is preferred
• Experience working on card payments is preferred
• Familiarity with cloud-native architecture (containerization using tools such as Docker and Kubernetes) is preferred
• Awareness of API security and PCI DSS compliance requirements is preferred
• Familiarity with mobile development (iOS or Android) is preferred
• Experience building AI skills & deploying AI solutions to production environments is preferred
• Experience building production-grade AI agents or copilots is preferred
• Familiarity with multi-agent systems and distributed AI architectures is preferred
• Experience with vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Weaviate, OpenSearch, Milvus) is preferred
• Knowledge of AI evaluation techniques, safety practices, and responsible AI principles is preferred.

Tech Stack

• Android
• Cloud
• Docker
• GRPC
• iOS
• Java
• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• Spring Boot
• SpringBoot
• SQL

Benefits

• health, dental and vision insurances
• retirement savings plan
• paid time off
• health savings account
• flexible spending accounts
• life insurance
• disability insurance
• tuition reimbursement
• more