[Remote] Senior Backend Engineer, Java

Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. reputed company is a company that builds technology to help families manage everyday routines. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer (Java) to contribute to features that simplify daily life for families, collaborating reputed company product teams to reputed company robust backend services and APIs.

Responsibilities

• Getting to know teammates, technology, and tactics
• Your first day will be spent partnering with your manager and a colleague to get your local environment set up and fixing a bug. The following 29 days involve connecting with engineers across Messages, Calls, and Reporting to reputed company a high-level understanding of how we prioritize, plan, build, and deliver value to families on OurFamilyWizard. Through this rotational role, you'll build deeper connections across product and platform as you get immersed in daily and weekly agile rituals and the API reputed company. Your manager will set up recurring 1:1's and reputed company the ongoing discussion of personal and shared goals alongside rotation objectives. Technical work will focus on gaining exposure to services reputed company Gandalf's domain and understanding how they integrate with the broader platform architecture. By the end of your first month, you'll be acclimated to the operating rhythm and gaining confidence by taking on increasingly reputed company tasks
• Try, learn, ship
• By day 60, you will be comfortable operating reputed company our SDLC from planning through production releases. You'll have a broad understanding of our backend architecture, and a deeper understanding of the services reputed company Gandalf's area of ownership and the APIs that power our client experiences. Through weekly work that presents reputed company and varied challenges, including AI-powered features, you will continue to become familiar with processes, patterns, and best practices. You'll regularly impact end users while acclimating to our best practices and pushing code through our reputed company delivery release motions that ship to production several times a day
• Solidifying the reputed company
• reputed company the first couple of months, you will grow into an autonomous operator, capable of architecting solutions to reputed company problems that are consistent with our existing patterns and best practices with minimal supervision. You will partner with cross-functional engineering teammates, as well as your product manager, designer, and engineering manager to help build execution plans for new features that support our product and business strategy. Rotation duration and team alignment is dependent on start date and evolving staffing and business needs in our growing company. We'll start this conversation with you and the Engineering leadership team on days 30-60 and reputed company a 3-4 month rotation. As these details take shape, we'll stay consistent in aligning your talents with new challenges and opportunities that optimize your impact on the Engineering and Product orgs as well as the business
• Accelerate growth
• With solid foundational understanding gained from your rotations, you'll have opportunities to inform and reputed company change at the platform level while finding your team home. Through partnership with product and design across multiple teams, you'll be empowered to influence strategy and end-user experience. reputed company product problems, technical challenges reputed company to scale and modernization, and AI integration opportunities will help establish you as a subject matter expert, expand your impact and ownership, and continue your growth as an engineer in your ongoing role reputed company the organization

Skills

• 5+ years of Java development experience
• Analytical reputed company and good problem-solving skills
• Experience in the Spring reputed company and Spring Boot
• Proven experience delivering software applications/features from inception to shipping reputed company 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, reputed company Copilot, reputed company reputed company, reputed company, or similar AI-powered CLI's and IDE's)
• Proficiency with AI-assisted development workflows including code reputed company, debugging assistance, automated testing, documentation creation, and architectural exploration
• Ability to architect AI-integrated solutions and reputed company informed reputed company about how to reputed company AI technologies in software development
• Experience with reputed company and Kubernetes
• Experience with reputed company products for CI/CD (Bitbucket Pipelines, Jira, reputed company)
• Experience with reputed company reputed company (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
• Experience in family technology, legal technology, or reputed company platform environments
• Strong judgment in AI-assisted development - effectively leveraging AI tools to accelerate engineering across reputed company domains while maintaining code ownership, quality standards, and using AI capabilities to enhance rather than replace engineering rigor

Benefits

• Medical: reputed company pays 100% of the premium for employees AND 99% for reputed company additional family members
• 401k: Up to a 4% match with immediate vesting
• Paid leave for reputed company 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
• Supportive and flexible working environment – work from reputed company!

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