Backend Java Engineer (Fully Remote)

Airship; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Flexible time off

Paid holidays

Paid parental leave

Volunteer time off

Monthly remote work stipend

Job summary

Airship is seeking a senior Java distributed-systems engineer to design, implement, and scale high-load services powering our no-code AI platform. You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to ensure reliability and low latency across terabytes of data.

You’ll investigate performance issues, refine architectures, and contribute to the design and implementation of scalable, secure systems in a remote-friendly, digital-first environment with a monthly remote work stipend.

Qualifications

• Three+ years of experience designing, operating, and maintaining distributed systems.
• Strong Java development skills with unit testing, code reviews, and Git version control.
• Professional fluency in spoken and written French.

Responsibilities

• Maintain, improve, and scale Java APIs and distributed services.
• Investigate performance issues using metrics and system data.
• Partner with product and engineering teams on technical design and implementation.

Skills

Java development

Distributed systems

Unit testing

Code reviews

Git

French language

Tools

Git

Job description

• Design, develop, and support distributed systems that combine scale with high reliability.
• Work on low-latency services processing continuous event streams and analytical workloads across terabytes of data.

What You'll Do:

• Maintain, improve, and scale Java APIs and distributed services.
• Investigate performance issues using server metrics, application data, and system behavior.
• Partner with product and engineering teams on technical design and implementation.

What We're Looking For:

• At least three years of experience designing, operating, and maintaining distributed systems.
• Strong Java development skills and experience with unit testing, code reviews, and Git-based version control.
• Professional fluency in spoken and written French.
• Medical insurance options for you and your dependents.
• Flexible time off, paid holidays, paid parental leave, and paid volunteer time off.
• Digital-first work environment with a monthly stipend to support remote work.

Airship

Airship is a no-code, AI-powered platform that helps leading brands create, test, and orchestrate hyper-personalized cross-channel customer experiences. The company fosters a digital-first work environment and offers flexible remote work, mentorship, and growth opportunities.