Sr Java Engineer // UNICORN Startup // Fully Remote

Motion Recruitment
New York, NY, United States
about 1 month ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) Amazon Web Services Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing Distributed Systems Reliability Engineering Software Engineering Cloud Platform System Backend Microservices

Job description

Experteer Overview As Senior Backend Engineer, you will shape the core platform behind a sleep technology product used worldwide. You join a high-performing team focusing on distributed systems, cloud-native infrastructure, and scalable services. You will own design-to-deployment work across product, mobile, embedded, ML, and data teams, driving reliability and performance. This role offers autonomy, technical excellence, and the chance to impact health outcomes at scale. Compensation / Benefits * Develop and maintain distributed systems with a focus on scalability and reliability * Improve cloud infrastructure and observability to ensure site reliability * Design and manage microservices architecture * Automate monitoring and deployment processes * Collaborate cross-functionally with product, mobile, embedded, ML, and data teams * Hands-on engineering with a strong emphasis on delivering in production Tasks * 8+ years of professional software engineering experience * 5+ years in backend engineering or site reliability engineering * Experience building and supporting distributed systems * Cloud platform experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP) * Experience with microservices architectures * Strong understanding of scalability, reliability, and observability Key requirements * Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance * Flexible PTO * Equity Participation * Remote Flexibility * Employee Product Benefits

Requirements

_ backend engineering or site reliability engineering * Experience building and supporting distributed systems * Cloud platform experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP) * Experience with microservices architectures * Strong understanding of scalability, reliability, and observability Key requirements * Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance * Flexible PTO * Equity Participation * Remote Flexibility * Employee Product Benefits

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