Senior Backend Engineer — Remote Ukraine (Java + Serverless)

Turnitin, LLC; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote First Culture

Health Care Coverage

Education Reimbursement

Competitive PTO

Parental Leave

Job summary

Turnitin, LLC is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer with a strong focus on Java and serverless architectures to join our distributed engineering teams. You will help build scalable shared services powering our educational platform and collaborate with product managers and architects to deliver reliable software.

The role requires hands-on backend development, some frontend work with React, and experience designing RESTful APIs, CI/CD pipelines, and performance tuning across cloud environments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend development with Java
• Experience with serverless frameworks (AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions)
• Frontend experience with React or Web Components
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, scalability and data modeling
• Cross-functional collaboration across Europe and USA
• Cloud technologies and serverless development on AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, SNS/SQS/EventBridge)
• Experience with CI/CD tooling, automation, and tests

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and optimize scalable shared backend services using Java and serverless technologies (AWS Lambda).
• Design / implement RESTful APIs and event-driven systems.
• Contribute to frontend components as needed.
• Optimize existing services for performance and cost-efficiency.
• Collaborate with Architects, Product Managers, and engineers to deliver solutions.
• Mentor junior developers and promote best practices.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Ensure code quality via reviews, tests, and standards.
• Create documentation for shared components with usage examples.

Skills

Java

Serverless (AWS Lambda)

RESTful APIs

Frontend development (React)

Distributed systems

CI/CD pipelines

Code reviews & testing

Tools

AWS Lambda

DynamoDB

API Gateway

SNS/SQS/EventBridge

Job description

Turnitin, LLC is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer with a strong focus on Java and serverless architectures to join our distributed engineering teams. You will help build scalable shared services powering our educational platform and collaborate with product managers and architects to deliver reliable software.

The role requires hands-on backend development, some frontend work with React, and experience designing RESTful APIs, CI/CD pipelines, and performance tuning across cloud environments.