Senior Backend Engineer: Orchestration & Event-Driven Scale

ZoomInfo; Waltham (MA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

ZoomInfo is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Backend Platform to design and build scalable services that power complex workflows and event-driven processing at scale. You will work with Temporal, Kafka, and cloud-native frameworks to enable reliable automation and data movement across the platform.

The role emphasizes high availability, observability, and collaboration with cross-functional teams, along with mentorship for junior engineers and participation in code reviews.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience, backend focus.
• Strong experience with Java (Spring Boot) and/or Node.js (NestJS).
• Experience with workflow orchestration systems (Temporal, Google Cloud Workflows).
• Build and optimize event-driven architectures (Kafka or streaming tech).
• Design systems for reliable job execution, retries, and long-running processes.
• Ensure high availability and scalability of backend systems handling many events.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services using Java (Spring Boot) and Node.js (NestJS).
• Develop and manage workflow orchestration systems using tools like Temporal or Google Cloud Workflows.
• Build and optimize event-driven architectures using Kafka or similar streaming tech.
• Design systems for reliable job execution, retries, state management, and long-running processes.
• Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability of backend systems handling large volumes of events.
• Design and maintain APIs and internal services that integrate with workflow engines.
• Build observability into systems (logging, tracing, metrics) to monitor workflow health and performance.
• Collaborate with product and platform teams to define workflow requirements and SLAs/SLOs.
• Optimize system performance, throughput, and latency across distributed systems.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues in complex, asynchronous systems.
• Establish best practices for workflow design, idempotency, and error handling.
• Participate in code reviews and mentor engineers on backend and distributed systems design.
• Develop high-quality code across multiple systems and applications with coding standards.

Skills

Java Spring Boot

Node.js NestJS

Kafka

Temporal

Google Cloud Workflows

REST APIs

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Spring Boot

Job description

ZoomInfo is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Backend Platform to design and build scalable services that power complex workflows and event-driven processing at scale. You will work with Temporal, Kafka, and cloud-native frameworks to enable reliable automation and data movement across the platform.

The role emphasizes high availability, observability, and collaboration with cross-functional teams, along with mentorship for junior engineers and participation in code reviews.