Senior Platform Engineer (Java/Spring) – AI-Driven Backend

Aravo Solutions; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% Employer Paid Medical Insurance

Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave

Life and AD&D Insurance

Long‑Term Disability Insurance

401K with Company Matching

Equity Participation

4 Weeks of Vacation

Fully Stocked Kitchens

Charitable Day of Giving

Job summary

Aravo Solutions, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer - Integration & Platform to lead the architecture and evolution of backend services, focusing on Java/Spring and cloud-native, scalable solutions.

You will drive engineering standards, guide integration patterns, and shape AI-enabled workflows within a fast-paced, collaborative environment. The role demands deep distributed-systems expertise, strong communication, and the ability to influence technical direction without direct authority.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on Java development in production environments.
• Deep expertise with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud ecosystems.
• Strong understanding of JVM internals, performance tuning, concurrency, and multithreading.

Responsibilities

• Own, design, and evolve distributed backend services using Java and Spring Boot.
• Architect systems for scalability, reliability, performance, and observability.
• Drive and document architectural decisions through ADRs, RFCs, and other technical artifacts.
• Establish and enforce engineering standards, design patterns, and best practices.
• Define and implement cloud-native patterns across environments and lead IaC adoption (Terraform, CDK).
• Lead integration projects including multi-tenant RESTful APIs, webhooks, and event-driven patterns (Kafka/Kinesis).

Skills

Java development

Spring Boot

Spring Cloud

JVM tuning

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

API design

Leadership

Observability

Tools

Terraform

CDK

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

Kafka

Kinesis

REST

GraphQL

SOAP

Job description

Aravo Solutions, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer - Integration & Platform to lead the architecture and evolution of backend services, focusing on Java/Spring and cloud-native, scalable solutions.

You will drive engineering standards, guide integration patterns, and shape AI-enabled workflows within a fast-paced, collaborative environment. The role demands deep distributed-systems expertise, strong communication, and the ability to influence technical direction without direct authority.