Founding Backend Engineer - Platform Owner (Hybrid)

liverangewater; United States; Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Two weeks PTO

Paid Holidays

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) Enrollment

Life insurance (Basic)

Short-Term Disability

Parental leave

Rent savings opportunities

Cell phone allowance

Job summary

RangeWater Residential in Atlanta, GA is seeking a Sr. Engineer (Founding Engineer) to own our internal production platform. You will lead backend services, data stores, and infrastructure, with no dedicated platform team.

You’ll work across services, APIs, and third-party integrations, and ship with modern AI tooling to empower business users. You should be a builder who ships end-to-end, owns production reliability, and collaborates with non-technical users to deliver impactful solutions.

Qualifications

• 6+ years building backend or distributed systems, including end-to-end ownership in a startup or founding-engineer role.
• Able to ship end-to-end backend/infrastructure with production readiness and user impact.
• Comfortable owning production systems, security, data integrity, and on-call responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Own a Java/Spring Boot backend end to end, including API design, data modeling, microservices, transactions, performance and security.
• Design and operate distributed systems with REST/gRPC and event-driven pipelines.
• Run production databases (SQL/NoSQL): schema design, migrations, tuning, backups.
• Operate real infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, logs, monitoring; on-call when issues arise.
• Integrate with third-party APIs and ensure reliability at scale.
• Ship polished UI in React unsupervised.
• Bonus: data engineering (Airflow, Kafka) and LLM-enabled features.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Distributed systems

REST/gRPC

SQL/NoSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

React

APIs integration

On-call ownership

Data engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Airflow

Kafka

Job description

RangeWater Residential in Atlanta, GA is seeking a Sr. Engineer (Founding Engineer) to own our internal production platform. You will lead backend services, data stores, and infrastructure, with no dedicated platform team.

You’ll work across services, APIs, and third-party integrations, and ship with modern AI tooling to empower business users. You should be a builder who ships end-to-end, owns production reliability, and collaborates with non-technical users to deliver impactful solutions.