Hybrid Senior Java Engineer: Spring Boot & Microservices

Zuora; Foster City (CA); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Flexible time off

Parental leave

Learning stipend

Volunteer matching

Mental wellbeing resources

Job summary

Zuora is seeking an experienced Senior Java Engineer to join our backend engineering team in Foster City, CA. You will design, build, and optimize high-performance services powering our enterprise billing and revenue systems, collaborating with product managers, architects, and DevOps to deliver features with high availability.

You will work in a hybrid environment, onsite three days a week, focusing on scalability, reliability, and performance for subscription-based platforms and billing

Qualifications

• 6–10 years of professional software development experience.
• Strong proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, and Microservices design.
• Solid understanding of data structures, multithreading, and design patterns.
• Experience with message queues (Kafka/RabbitMQ) and databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP).
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable backend services using Java (11+), Spring Boot, and Microservices architecture.
• Build and maintain integrations with Kafka, AWS, and REST/gRPC APIs.
• Optimize system performance, reliability, and throughput for high-volume workloads.
• Participate in architectural design discussions and code reviews.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to improving engineering best practices.
• Collaborate with product and QA teams in an agile environment.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

Data structures

Multithreading

Design patterns

Kafka

RabbitMQ

MySQL

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

REST/gRPC APIs

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

MySQL

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Job description

Zuora is seeking an experienced Senior Java Engineer to join our backend engineering team in Foster City, CA. You will design, build, and optimize high-performance services powering our enterprise billing and revenue systems, collaborating with product managers, architects, and DevOps to deliver features with high availability.

You will work in a hybrid environment, onsite three days a week, focusing on scalability, reliability, and performance for subscription-based platforms and billing