Staff Backend Engineer - Promos & AI-Driven Systems Hybrid

Hard Rock Digital; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Flexible vacation

Work from home options

Global brand

Job summary

Hard Rock Digital is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to own the technical direction for backend capabilities within the Promos domain. You will work across Product, Mobile, Web, Data, QA, Platform, Security, Compliance, and Operations to turn ambiguous needs into durable strategies and guide initiatives from discovery through production.

You will stay hands-on with the hardest problems, raise the bar for code review, testing, and observability, and mentor Senior/Staff engineers while delivering

Qualifications

• Typically 7+ years of software engineering experience, with distributed backend systems.
• Deep expertise with Java, Spring, and Spring Boot.
• Strong AWS knowledge and experience building scalable, resilient apps across regions.
• Experience with PostgreSQL or CockroachDB including design and migrations.
• Experience with streaming technologies such as Kafka or Kinesis and messaging systems.
• Experience designing microservices and containerized workloads with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong engineering judgment across testing, observability, and CI/CD for production systems.
• Hands-on fluency with AI-assisted development and risk controls.
• Record of shaping technical and product strategy and influencing outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Own backend technical direction for the Promos domain and related services.
• Design and evolve APIs, events, data contracts, and service boundaries.
• Lead scalable promotion lifecycle capabilities including configuration, activation, state transitions, and rewards.
• Mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and improve testing, security, and observability.
• Lead diagnosis across services, logs, traces, and metrics to drive systemic improvements.

Skills

Java

Spring/Spring Boot

AWS

PostgreSQL

Kafka/Kinesis

Docker

Kubernetes

API design

CI/CD

AI assisted development

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

SQS/RabbitMQ/ActiveMQ

Git

Job description

Hard Rock Digital is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to own the technical direction for backend capabilities within the Promos domain. You will work across Product, Mobile, Web, Data, QA, Platform, Security, Compliance, and Operations to turn ambiguous needs into durable strategies and guide initiatives from discovery through production.

You will stay hands-on with the hardest problems, raise the bar for code review, testing, and observability, and mentor Senior/Staff engineers while delivering