Backend Java Engineer: Scalable Cloud APIs (Remote)

OpenKrill; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Remote work stipend

Flexible time off

Job summary

Airship is hiring a Backend Java Engineer to design, develop, and support distributed systems on Google Cloud Platform. You will work on low-latency services processing event streams and analytical workloads with Java microservices, SQL, and NoSQL databases.

Join a core team shaping Airship's technical foundations. You will lead large-scale releases, collaborate with product and engineering teams, and help set technical standards while leveraging AI tools to aid development and problem solving.

Qualifications

• At least three years of experience designing, operating, and maintaining distributed systems.
• Professional fluency in spoken and written French.
• Strong Java development skills.
• Experience with unit testing, code reviews, documentation, and Git-based version control.
• Experience leading significant releases or technical projects.
• Familiarity with CI/CD practices.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• A collaborative and pragmatic approach to software development.
• A commitment to building reliable, maintainable, and testable systems.

Responsibilities

• Design data schemas and take ownership of data semantics.
• Maintain, improve, and scale Java APIs and distributed services.
• Investigate performance issues using server metrics, application data, and system behavior.
• Improve the reliability, testability, and maintainability of our backend systems.
• Partner with product and engineering teams on technical design and implementation.
• Help define technical standards across teams.
• Lead and own large-scale releases and technical projects.
• Use AI as a technical assistant to draft development plans and investigate problems or bugs.
• Critically assess AI-generated suggestions for accuracy, security, and suitability.

Skills

Strong Java development skills

Professional fluency in French

Experience leading releases or major技术

CI/CD practices

Strong written and verbalcommunication

Collaborative and pragmatic software

Commitment to reliable, maintainable,

Tools

Git

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

Airship is hiring a Backend Java Engineer to design, develop, and support distributed systems on Google Cloud Platform. You will work on low-latency services processing event streams and analytical workloads with Java microservices, SQL, and NoSQL databases.

Join a core team shaping Airship's technical foundations. You will lead large-scale releases, collaborate with product and engineering teams, and help set technical standards while leveraging AI tools to aid development and problem solving.