Senior Java Backend Engineer - Scalable Microservices

Gohyred; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development

Remote-friendly culture

Job summary

Jitterbit is seeking a Java Backend Software Engineer to join our engineer team. You will design, architect, and implement robust, scalable distributed systems powering our SaaS platform. The role offers deep technical growth and opportunities to contribute to core platform reliability.

You will collaborate with Product, DevOps, and SRE teams to deliver features, resolve incidents, and improve observability. A distributed, remote-friendly culture supports engineers worldwide.

Qualifications

• 7+ years designing and building large-scale distributed backend systems.
• 5+ years working with multi-tenant SaaS architectures in production.
• Proven ability to drive system design and mentor engineers on design patterns and best practices.
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills in distributed systems.
• Deep experience with microservices, API design, and inter-service communication patterns.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure) and Kubernetes.
• Solid fundamentals: SOLID principles, testing strategies, and security considerations.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement high-performance, fault-tolerant connector integrations for mission-critical workflows 24x7x365.
• Architect distributed microservices following cloud-native patterns for multi-tenant SaaS environments.
• Build and optimize data pipelines supporting REST, SOAP, GraphQL, gRPC, and webhooks.

Skills

Java (Backend)

Distributed systems

Microservices

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Software design patterns

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Spring Boot

Apache Kafka

RabbitMQ

REST/GraphQL

Job description

Jitterbit is seeking a Java Backend Software Engineer to join our engineer team. You will design, architect, and implement robust, scalable distributed systems powering our SaaS platform. The role offers deep technical growth and opportunities to contribute to core platform reliability.

You will collaborate with Product, DevOps, and SRE teams to deliver features, resolve incidents, and improve observability. A distributed, remote-friendly culture supports engineers worldwide.