We’re looking for a hands-on Staff Backend Engineer/Technical Lead
This person must be capable of independently designing, developing, deploying, and operating a production backend service while working effectively across application, infrastructure, security, and product teams.
Key requirements:
- Strong production experience with Kotlin or Java/JVM and Spring Boot
- Experience designing and supporting REST APIs and distributed systems
- Strong knowledge of MongoDB or Amazon DocumentDB, including data modeling, indexing, migrations, concurrency, and atomic updates
- Experience with Kafka, Avro, Schema Registry, asynchronous processing, retries, and idempotency
- Hands-on deployment experience with AWS, EKS/Kubernetes, Helm, and CI/CD
- Working knowledge of AWS IAM/IRSA, secrets management/Vault, and service networking
- Strong testing practices, including unit and integration testing with tools such as Testcontainers
- Experience with production observability, troubleshooting, incident response, and safe rollback strategies
- Demonstrated technical leadership and ability to drive cross-functional work with minimal supervision
Nice-to-have experience:
- Temporal workflows
- Confluent Cloud
- Istio and OPA
- OpenTelemetry, Datadog, or Honeycomb
- Gradle, CircleCI, Jib, Cosign, and Snyk
- Legacy-system modernization or migration projects
- This is primarily a backend and platform-oriented role, not a frontend, pure DevOps, people-management, or machine-learning position. We need a senior individual contributor who remains hands-on and can take end-to-end ownership of the service.
Interested?
Applications are handled on LinkedIn. You can also send your résumé straight to kumar@drsitsolutions.com if you would rather not apply there.