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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Sr. Engineer (Founding Engineer) - **Company:** Rangewater Residential - **Location:** Atlanta, GA, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Airflow, Databases, Continuous Integration, Information Engineering, Data Integrity, Data Stores, Distributed Systems, NoSQL, Query Optimization, SQL Databases, ReactJS, Large Language Models, Spring-boot, Backend, Kubernetes, Integration Frameworks, Apache Kafka, Api Design, Docker, Microservices - **Published:** September 10, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=f600893ca80e2ef0 ## About the Role * 6+ years building backend or distributed systems, including at least one stretch where you shipped something end to end alone or on a very small team - a startup, a founding-engineer role, or a system with real users that was truly yours. Big-tech experience is valuable, but on its own it may not translate: this role has none of that scaffolding. * A builder first. You'd rather own the whole problem than a slice of it. * Excellent technical judgment - you can weigh a tradeoff, see its business implications, and make the call without a committee. * Comfortable owning production end to end - security, data integrity, and uptime are yours, including carrying on-call. * Strong stakeholder instincts. You can sit with a non-technical user, understand what they actually need, and ship it quickly. * Adaptable and ambitious. As RangeWater grows, you grow into the technical leader who builds the team around this platform. ## Description At RangeWater, we look for people who show up and work together to achieve success and make positive impacts on the lives we touch and enrich the communities we serve, as people are at the heart of everything we do. As a Ranger, we encourage you to explore possibilities and solutions for your own career success story and apply the same enthusiasm to help RangeWater remain THE leader and powerful force in Multi-Family Real Estate., This is a founding-engineer seat, not a feature-team job. You'll be the engineer behind a production platform the business relies on every month - backend services, data stores, infrastructure, and third-party integrations. There's no platform team behind you: you deploy it, you monitor it, you're on call when it breaks, and you decide what gets built next by sitting with the people who use it. With modern AI tooling, we expect one exceptional engineer to operate at the pace of a small team, and we'll equip you accordingly., * Own a Java / Spring Boot backend end to end - API design, data modeling, microservices, transactions, performance, and security. * Design and operate distributed systems - service-to-service APIs (REST/gRPC), event-driven pipelines, and the tradeoffs between them. * Run production databases yourself: schema design, migrations, query tuning, and backups across SQL and NoSQL. * Operate real infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, logs, and monitoring - and you've been on the on-call hook when something went down. * Integrate with messy third-party and partner APIs and make the result reliable at scale. * Ship polished, complex UIs in React unsupervised - no designer or front-end specialist holding your hand. * Bonus: data engineering (Airflow, Kafka, or similar) and building with LLMs as a force multiplier. ## Related Videos - [Coffee with Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/354-coffee-with-developers) - [Fully Orchestrating Databricks from Airflow](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/336-fully-orchestrating-databricks-from-airflow) - [Docker Compose: Rediscovered](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1978-docker-compose-rediscovered) - [Leveraging Real time data in FSIs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/806-leveraging-real-time-data-in-fsis) - [From Messy Queries to Scalable Systems - How Data Engineering actually works](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100203-from-messy-queries-to-scalable-systems-how-data-engineering-actually-works) - [Docker build without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100114-docker-build-without-docker) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [The Best X (Twitter) Accounts for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/294-the-best-x-twitter-accounts-for-developers) - [How to Answer the Interview Question: “Why Do You Want to Be a Software Engineer?”](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/392-how-to-answer-the-interview-question-why-do-you-want-to-be-a-software-engineer) - [The Best Software Developer Blogs to Read](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/156-the-best-software-developer-blogs-to-read) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers)