Senior Backend Architect – AI-First Platform

Camunda; Galway; Remote; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Annual kickoff trips

Wellbeing program

Learning budget

Job summary

Camunda Hub is hiring a Senior Product Builder to own the backend and architecture for Hub managing a fleet of clusters. You’ll own the mechanism sending access, secrets, tenants, licences and custom roles to connected clusters, and shape the event model and data boundaries.

The role emphasizes AI-first development from spec to production and impact on Camunda customers running mission-critical processes. You’ll join a two-person pod in a remote-first team, with ownership and async collaboration

Qualifications

• Designed and shipped a control plane or similar system that pushes desired state to many targets.
• Senior backend engineering in Java (API design, relational data models, multi-tenant SaaS services) and hands-on Helm and Kubernetes for self-managed installations.
• Software architecture and failure analysis: partial failure, blast radius, consistency trade-offs.
• Has shaped an API or platform as a product, and writes design docs other teams can build on.
• Builds AI-first from written specifications and checks AI output as carefully as any other code

Responsibilities

• Take over Hub's fleet propagation mechanism from the team building its first version, and make it work for access, secrets, tenants, licences and custom roles
• Write short design documents for foundational changes, get them reviewed by the teams that depend on them, and turn them into tested, shipped code
• Design how Hub behaves when things go wrong: offline clusters, partial failures, Hub outages, and clusters being adopted or detached
• Build the path from clusters back to Hub, starting with deployment inventory, health, audit records and licence status
• Design Hub's first event and webhook mechanism, so admins and agents can react to changes instead of polling for them
• Join the pod's rotations and Hub on-call, and help other builders take on backend work through reviews, guidelines and contract tests

Skills

Backend engineering

Java API design

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Technical writing

On-call readiness

Tools

Helm

Job description

Camunda Hub is hiring a Senior Product Builder to own the backend and architecture for Hub managing a fleet of clusters. You’ll own the mechanism sending access, secrets, tenants, licences and custom roles to connected clusters, and shape the event model and data boundaries.

The role emphasizes AI-first development from spec to production and impact on Camunda customers running mission-critical processes. You’ll join a two-person pod in a remote-first team, with ownership and async collaboration