Senior Backend Engineer - Context & API Platform

Justremote; United States; Remote; USD 185,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay and stock grants

Flexible paid time off

Comprehensive benefits incl. equity

Job summary

Starburst Data is seeking a backend-focused engineer to design, build, and operate scalable services that reconcile business context across multiple systems. You will own reliability and data consistency while collaborating with product to define roadmaps and unblock features.

The role also involves integrating LLM capabilities into backend workflows and working with teams building AI-powered features. Ideal candidates have strong Java, full-stack experience, REST API design, and familiarity

Qualifications

• Extensive Java software development across full stack.
• Experience building and operating distributed backend services.
• Experience designing REST APIs and graph-relational data models.
• Experience integrating LLMs into backend systems.
• Comfort working in ambiguous, fast-evolving problem spaces.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate backend services for context data.
• Own reliability and data consistency across sources.
• Collaborate with product to define features and unblock ideas.
• Work cross-functionally with AI features teams to ship context-aware capabilities.
• Provide timely review of peers' pull requests and design proposals.

Skills

Java

Full stack

Distributed backend

REST APIs

Graph data

LLMs integration

Ambiguity handling

Agentic tools

Best practices

Data governance tools

Tools

dbt

Collibra

Job description

Starburst Data is seeking a backend-focused engineer to design, build, and operate scalable services that reconcile business context across multiple systems. You will own reliability and data consistency while collaborating with product to define roadmaps and unblock features.

The role also involves integrating LLM capabilities into backend workflows and working with teams building AI-powered features. Ideal candidates have strong Java, full-stack experience, REST API design, and familiarity