Software Engineer

of core backend services, drive integration architecture with third-party platforms, and help establish the engineering patterns. You will work closely with product, design, and customer-facing teams to ensure what gets built solves real problems elegantly. Key Responsibilities Platform & Backend Engineering - Design and build scalable, highly available Java microservices on AWS from scratch - Define and own the data model for time tracking entities - entries, projects, users, billing cycles - Architect RESTful and event-driven APIs consumed by web, mobile, and third-party clients - Own the full AWS infrastructure for your services: Lambda, ECS/EKS, RDS/Aurora, SQS, S3, CloudWatch - Implement CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or AWS Code Pipeline, with automated testing gates Integrations - Build bi-directional sync between the time tracking platform and Airtable bases via the Airtable API - Integrate with Linear to link time entries to issues, projects, and cycles - keeping both systems in sync - Develop Slack workflows: slash commands, interactive modals, notifications, and Bolt-based event subscriptions - Design an integration framework that can onboard new third-party connectors without re-architecting core services - Handle webhooks, OAuth 2.0 flows, token management, and rate limiting for all external platforms AI-First Development - Use AI coding assistants (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor) as a core productivity tool throughout development - Implement AI-powered features: intelligent time entry suggestions, anomaly detection, natural language querying of time data - Leverage LLMs for smart auto-categorization of time entries based on calendar, Linear activity, or Slack context - Contribute to prompt engineering, RAG pipelines, or fine-tuning workflows as the product roadmap evolves - Evaluate and recommend AI/ML services (AWS Bedrock, SageMaker, OpenAI, Anthropic APIs) appropriate to each use case Quality & Collaboration - Write clean, well-tested Java code - unit, integration, and contract tests are non-negotiable - Participate in architecture reviews, PR reviews, and cross-functional planning sessions - Contribute to runbooks, ADRs (Architecture Decision Records), and internal documentation Required Qualifications Core (Must-Have) - 5+ years of professional software engineering experience - Backend: Strong Java proficiency - Spring Boot or Quarkus for microservices; experience with reactive frameworks (Vert.x, WebFlux) a plus - Cloud: Deep AWS expertise - Hands-on experience with Lambda, ECS or EKS, RDS/Aurora, SQS/SNS, API Gateway