Senior / Lead Backend Java Engineer

AssureSoft Corporation; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

AssureSoft is seeking an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to own large backend systems, design scalable solutions, and lead technical decisions. You will mentor junior engineers, ensure code quality, and collaborate with product teams to translate business goals into technical action.

You will design secure, high‑performance APIs and microservices in the Spring ecosystem, and leverage cloud and AI-assisted tooling to accelerate delivery while maintaining quality.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with substantial backend development.
• Advanced Java knowledge, strong OO, concurrency, collections, performance.
• Strong hands-on experience with Spring / Spring Boot.
• Experience designing and building microservices and distributed backend systems.
• Strong experience designing and maintaining REST APIs and third‑party integrations.
• Relational database knowledge including schema design, SQL, and performance (MySQL preferred).
• Experience with ORM technologies such as JPA/Hibernate.
• Experience with Git and modern software development practices.
• Experience with automated testing and code-quality practices.
• Hands-on experience with AI code assistants like Claude Code and Codex.
• Experience in Agile environments and practical cloud experience, preferably AWS.
• Strong debugging and root-cause-analysis capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Take end-to-end technical ownership of backend systems, features, and integrations.
• Translate ambiguous business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Lead architecture discussions and influence framework decisions.
• Mentor engineers and promote engineering best practices.
• Design and maintain REST APIs and microservices.
• Troubleshoot production issues and perform root-cause analysis.
• Collaborate with product and stakeholders to shape solutions.

Skills

Java

Spring

REST APIs

Microservices

SQL

ORM (JPA/Hibernate)

MySQL

AWS

Git

Automated Testing

Agile

AI Code Assistants

Kafka

GraphQL

SOAP

gRPC

Tools

Kafka

GraphQL

SOAP

gRPC

JPA/Hibernate

MySQL

AWS

Git

Job description

The key to our success is simple; we deliver the highest quality, on time, with passion and commitment, and live every day by a set of great values. We've built a company that fosters long‑term careers in an environment of continuous learning, with cutting‑edge benefits, tools, and resources. In addition, certifications that endorse our company as a great place to work.

Responsibilities

Technical Ownership & Leadership

• Take end-to-end technical ownership of significant backend systems, features, and integrations.
• Translate ambiguous business requirements into well-designed, scalable technical solutions.
• Lead technical design discussions and make or influence decisions involving architecture, frameworks, APIs, data models, performance, and implementation approaches.
• Identify technical risks early and proactively propose solutions.
• Balance short-term delivery requirements with long‑term maintainability and platform architecture.
• Take accountability for the quality, reliability, and successful delivery of owned solutions.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior and mid‑level engineers.
• Conduct meaningful code reviews that improve both code quality and engineering capability.
• Promote clean code, appropriate design patterns, testing, documentation, and engineering best practices.
• Help engineers reason through complex technical problems rather than simply providing answers.
• Raise engineering standards across the team through knowledge sharing and technical leadership.
• Design and implement scalable, secure, maintainable, and high‑performance backend applications using Java and the Spring ecosystem.
• Design and maintain REST APIs and integrations with internal and third‑party systems.
• Build and evolve microservices and distributed backend systems.
• Design appropriate database structures and optimize queries for performance and scalability.
• Troubleshoot complex production problems and drive root‑cause analysis through permanent resolution.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and implement effective solutions.
• Write automated tests and maintain high standards for code quality.

Business & Stakeholder Collaboration

• Work directly with product, business, engineering, and technical leadership to understand business goals.
• Ask the right questions to uncover the actual problem behind a request.
• Recommend technical solutions rather than simply implementing requested specifications.
• Clearly communicate architecture decisions, technical constraints, risks, and tradeoffs.
• Build trust with stakeholders through ownership, follow‑through, and sound engineering judgment.

AI-Enabled Engineering

• Effectively use modern AI‑assisted development tools to accelerate implementation, analysis, debugging, testing, and refactoring.
• Critically review AI‑generated code rather than accepting generated solutions without engineering validation.
• Identify opportunities where AI‑enabled workflows can improve engineering productivity while maintaining code quality.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with substantial hands‑on backend development experience.
• Advanced Java knowledge, including strong understanding of core Java, object‑oriented programming, concurrency, collections, exception handling, and application performance.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Spring / Spring Boot.
• Demonstrated experience designing and building microservices and distributed backend systems.
• Strong experience designing and maintaining REST APIs and third‑party integrations.
• Strong relational database knowledge, including schema design, SQL, query optimization, and performance considerations. MySQL experience is preferred.
• Experience with ORM technologies such as JPA/Hibernate or equivalent.
• Experience with Git and modern software development practices.
• Experience with automated testing and code‑quality practices.
• Strong hands‑on experience AI Code assistants like Claude Code and Codex.
• Experience working in Agile development environments.
• Practical cloud experience, preferably AWS.
• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, production‑support, and root‑cause‑analysis capabilities.
• Personally owning a complex project, system, or major feature from definition through delivery.
• Making or driving significant technical or architectural decisions.
• Improving another engineer's technical capability through mentorship or feedback.
• Handling ambiguous requirements and independently determining how to move forward.
• Working directly with business or product stakeholders to shape a technical solution.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building or operating high‑volume transactional systems.
• Experience with event‑driven architecture, Kafka, asynchronous processing, or high‑volume data pipelines.
• Experience with e‑commerce, order management, inventory, logistics, payments, or shipping integrations.
• Experience with additional API technologies such as SOAP, GraphQL, or gRPC.
• Experience with SAP Commerce (Hybris) is beneficial but not required.
• Experience working across web and mobile platform ecosystems.
• Experience designing systems for high availability, resilience, and scalability.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, and production performance analysis.

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About us

AssureSoft is a multinational software development and information technology company providing strategic consulting, technology services, and outsourcing business processes. We work to innovate and create quality software with motivated, passionate, and qualified teams that develop in an environment of professional, stable growth and continuous learning.

Inclusive Opportunities for Every Talent. At AssureSoft, we believe that true innovation is born from diversity—of ideas, experiences, and perspectives. That’s why our hiring practices are inclusive and reflect a firm commitment to equity and equal opportunity.
Here, every person—regardless of origin, gender, orientation, or beliefs—finds a space to grow, contribute, and be valued not only for their talent, but also for who they are.

What sets us apart

• Great Place To Work certification.
• A company with more than 15 years of experience.
• Work with world‑class clients and long‑term projects.
• English scholarships for an external institute.
• English classes with company teachers.
• State‑of‑the‑art tools and resources.
• Certifications for your professional growth.
• Recreation and leisure activities.
• Compliance with the regulations and labor rights of your region.

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