Senior Backend Engineer – AI-Powered Observability

New Relic, Inc.; Barcelona; Híbrido; EUR 90.000 - 120.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

New Relic, Inc. is seeking a senior backend engineer to own architecture and delivery of a significant service within our behavioral data platform. You will work in a fast-moving, AI-first environment, designing scalable, secure systems and collaborating with product managers and customers.

Our stack centers on Java, Spring, GraphQL, NoSQL, Kubernetes, Kafka and AWS. You’ll mentor engineers, lead technical discussions, and help shape the team’s process and adoption of AI tools.

Formación

• Hands-on expertise in Java and backend service design with production-grade code.
• Experience building and operating Kafka-based streaming pipelines in AWS production environments.
• Strong experience with distributed systems, concurrency, and scaling; diagnosing complex production issues.
• Track record of mentoring engineers and providing direction in code reviews and design discussions.
• Comfortable partnering with product managers and stakeholders to shape technical scope from ambiguous requirements.
• Sound judgment in choosing the right approach on moderate-to-broad scope issues.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with ability to build consensus across teams.
• Proficiency in English.

Responsabilidades

• Own the architecture and technical direction of a significant, moderately-scoped service within the behavioral data platform, from design through delivery.
• Champion the delivery of full components and support the lead engineer in coordinating feedback across the team.
• Collaborate with product managers, stakeholders and customer teams to distill requirements into a clear technical plan.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks before they reach production.
• Facilitate data-driven design debates and explore multiple options and trade-offs.
• Provide technical direction and mentorship to less experienced engineers.
• Contribute to improving team processes to deliver quality software regularly and incrementally.
• Actively use and shape AI coding assistants and agent-based tools within the workflow.

Conocimientos

Java backend

Kafka streaming

AWS cloud

Distributed systems

Mentoring

Technical leadership

English proficiency

Spring

GraphQL

NoSQL

Kubernetes

Herramientas

Spring

GraphQL

NoSQL

Kubernetes

AWS

Descripción del empleo

New Relic, Inc. is seeking a senior backend engineer to own architecture and delivery of a significant service within our behavioral data platform. You will work in a fast-moving, AI-first environment, designing scalable, secure systems and collaborating with product managers and customers.

Our stack centers on Java, Spring, GraphQL, NoSQL, Kubernetes, Kafka and AWS. You’ll mentor engineers, lead technical discussions, and help shape the team’s process and adoption of AI tools.