Senior Backend Engineer – Real‑World Incentives Platform

Metropolis Technologies; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 177,000 - 216,000; Full time

Job summary

Metropolis Technologies is hiring a Senior Software Engineer in Seattle to lead backend design and implementation for our incentive and rewards platform. You will connect real-world signals with personalized experiences, mentoring peers and delivering large-scale systems.

You will collaborate with Product, Marketing, and Data to shape the technical roadmap while ensuring high availability, security, and performance across services.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience.
• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
• Working knowledge of Scala, Java, or other JVM languages supporting functional programming.
• Experience building distributed systems using microservices, SOA, and event-driven architectures.
• Deep understanding of agile processes and the software development life cycle, including TDD/BDD and CI/CD.
• Experience with database technologies such as MySQL and RDS.
• Proven ability to design and build highly available and scalable systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for presenting complex technical information.
• Professional exposure to developing large-scale, high-quality systems for consumer-facing applications.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement the backend services that power the Metropolis incentive and rewards infrastructure.
• Build real-time event streaming architectures to process high-frequency signals from the physical world.
• Develop scalable compliance and preference management services for cross-vertical messaging integrity.
• Architect intelligent decisioning frameworks that tailor experiences to user context.
• Create robust service architectures for product eligibility, partner configurations, and budgets.
• Implement attribution and measurement systems to quantify engagement and campaign efficacy.
• Scale and maintain multi-modal identity systems bridging digital tokens with real-world IDs.
• Collaborate with Product, Marketing, and Data to define the long-term tech roadmap.
• Mentor team members and lead technical discussions to improve engineering platform.
• Drive the full software development lifecycle from concept to production.

Skills

Strong communication

Mentoring

Problem solving

Agile processes

SDLC understanding

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Scala

Java

Microservices

Event-driven architectures

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Snowflake

AWS

Git / GitHub

Job description

Metropolis Technologies is hiring a Senior Software Engineer in Seattle to lead backend design and implementation for our incentive and rewards platform. You will connect real-world signals with personalized experiences, mentoring peers and delivering large-scale systems.

You will collaborate with Product, Marketing, and Data to shape the technical roadmap while ensuring high availability, security, and performance across services.