Senior Backend Architect — AI-Native, High-Traffic Scale

PVH (Tommy Hilfiger/Calvin Klein); Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 118,000 - 212,000; Full time

Job summary

NewsBreak is hiring for a hands‑on backend architect in Mountain View to lead a major architecture upgrade. You will design clean interfaces, improve observability, and ensure safe deployment on high‑QPS services that power our recommendation serving at scale.

You will own reliability, build scalable backend systems, and collaborate with AI/ML teams to deliver product initiatives while maintaining safety and rollback controls. Strong Java and Kubernetes expertise are required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years backend experience with strong Java and scalability focus.
• Led backend architecture design: service boundaries, data flows, high‑QPS systems.
• Refactored live production systems with safe migration and rollout.
• Focus on safety: rollback planning and blast-radius control by default.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture upgrade of backend services and land it on live high‑QPS systems.
• Build the infrastructure that lets AI agents act safely in production.
• Automate high‑toil engineering workflows into reliable, self‑serve systems.
• Deliver backend capabilities for product initiatives (experiments, growth systems, serving changes).
• Own reliability for what you build: observability, safe rollback, and knowledge base improvements.

Skills

Backend development

Java

System design

CI/CD

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Job description

NewsBreak is hiring for a hands‑on backend architect in Mountain View to lead a major architecture upgrade. You will design clean interfaces, improve observability, and ensure safe deployment on high‑QPS services that power our recommendation serving at scale.

You will own reliability, build scalable backend systems, and collaborate with AI/ML teams to deliver product initiatives while maintaining safety and rollback controls. Strong Java and Kubernetes expertise are required.