Senior Backend Engineer & AI Lead (Hybrid)

Care Com; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Health insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401K matching

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Care.com in Austin is seeking a backend engineer with a product mindset to join the Search & Match team. You will build scalable systems powering discovery, ranking, and matching, primarily backend with full-stack options a plus, and you’ll lead AI-driven initiatives from concept to production.

You’ll collaborate with engineers, product managers, and cross-functional teams to deliver impactful features and improve performance.

Qualifications

• 5–7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proven AI/ML in production and driving those initiatives end to end.
• Ownership mindset for ambiguous problems and driving measurable outcomes.
• Strong experience with Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Docker, SQL, and Hibernate.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI initiatives end to end from identifying opportunity to delivery, measurement, and iteration.
• Build, maintain, and enhance high-volume backend systems.
• Break down monolithic components into microservices.
• Partner with product managers to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Collaborate with internal teams to design, implement, and improve services.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code; participate in code reviews.
• Support production systems, troubleshoot issues, and improve reliability.
• Work with QA to ensure high-quality releases.
• Continuously identify opportunities to improve performance and developer experience.
• Build systems using data and AI to improve search relevance and matching quality.

Skills

Java

Spring

Kafka

Docker

SQL

Hibernate

Cloud platforms

APIs

Distributed systems

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Elasticsearch

Jenkins

AWS

S3

Job description

Care.com in Austin is seeking a backend engineer with a product mindset to join the Search & Match team. You will build scalable systems powering discovery, ranking, and matching, primarily backend with full-stack options a plus, and you’ll lead AI-driven initiatives from concept to production.

You’ll collaborate with engineers, product managers, and cross-functional teams to deliver impactful features and improve performance.