Senior Backend Engineer – AI-Powered Cloud Services

Everbridge; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Everbridge is seeking a Senior Software Engineer I to build scalable, cloud-native backend services in a fast-paced, AI-assisted environment. While primarily backend, you’ll contribute across the stack and collaborate with frontend, product, QA, and platform teams to deliver reliable software.

You will design and develop backend services using Java and Spring Boot, implement IaC with Salt and Terraform on AWS, and build RESTful APIs, microservices, and event-driven systems while advancing

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong Java and Spring Boot expertise.
• In-depth IaC experience with Salt and Terraform.
• Experience designing cloud-native backend systems using RESTful APIs, microservices, Docker, Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, scalability, performance, reliability, and secure design.
• Experience with AWS and modern DevOps practices.
• Familiarity with AI-powered development tools and practices.
• Ability to evaluate AI-generated code while maintaining quality and security.
• Comfort working in Agile/Scrum environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Java and Spring Boot.
• Develop IaC to provision and manage AWS infrastructure for SaaS applications.
• Build RESTful APIs, microservices, and event-driven systems.
• Collaborate with frontend, product, QA, and platform teams to deliver end-to-end experiences.
• Leverage AI-assisted tools to accelerate coding, testing, debugging, and reviews.
• Improve observability, reliability, automation, and production readiness across services.
• Participate in architecture discussions and design reviews.
• Support production systems through on-call, incidents, and improvements.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews and knowledge sharing.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Infrastructure as Code

Salt

Terraform

AWS

RESTful APIs

Microservices

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

AI-assisted development tools

Cloud-native design

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Salt

Job description

Everbridge is seeking a Senior Software Engineer I to build scalable, cloud-native backend services in a fast-paced, AI-assisted environment. While primarily backend, you’ll contribute across the stack and collaborate with frontend, product, QA, and platform teams to deliver reliable software.

You will design and develop backend services using Java and Spring Boot, implement IaC with Salt and Terraform on AWS, and build RESTful APIs, microservices, and event-driven systems while advancing