Backend Engineer — Enterprise-Scale Systems & APIs

ClearlyRated; West Portland (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

ClearlyRated is seeking a Backend Software Engineer in Portland, OR to build a world‑class platform handling high enterprise load. You will design service boundaries, data models, and REST contracts consumed by frontends and enterprise clients, focusing on correctness, observability, and secure access.

You will deploy event‑driven microservices on GCP (Pub/Sub), ensure robust error handling, and implement an integration layer connecting data sources to our platform.

Qualifications

• Strong Java understanding at JVM level, including concurrency and memory model.
• Deep Spring Boot / DI understanding, beyond annotations.
• SQL and data modelling with joins, aggregations, and window functions.

Responsibilities

• Design system, database, and API boundaries with backward compatibility.
• Develop event-driven microservices on GCP Pub/Sub.
• Build webhook-triggered survey automation engine and reliable workflows.
• Create resilient services with retries, timeouts, and observability.

Skills

Java 18+

Spring Boot

SQL/Datamodelling

Kafka

GCP Pub/Sub

BigQuery

Kubernetes

REST APIs

CI/CD

Tools

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Job description

ClearlyRated is seeking a Backend Software Engineer in Portland, OR to build a world‑class platform handling high enterprise load. You will design service boundaries, data models, and REST contracts consumed by frontends and enterprise clients, focusing on correctness, observability, and secure access.

You will deploy event‑driven microservices on GCP (Pub/Sub), ensure robust error handling, and implement an integration layer connecting data sources to our platform.