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# Sr Java Engineer // UNICORN Startup // Fully Remote

- **Company:** Motion Recruitment
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Distributed Systems, Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, Cloud Platform System, Backend, Microservices
- **Published:** August 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://us.experteer.com/career/view-jobs/sr-java-engineer-unicorn-startup-fully-remote-10002-new-york-ny-usa-58852254

## About the Role

_ 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

## 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


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