Backend Platform Engineer

Backend Engineer developing the integration backbone for a B2B SaaS platform. Focused on distributed systems, API design, and backend engineering.

Posted 5/27/2026full-timeRemote • Oregon • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $80,000 - $100,000 per yearWebsite

Tools & technologies

BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKafkaKubernetesMicroservices.NETSpringSpring BootSpringBootSQL

Key responsibilities & impact

Real systems that enterprise clients depend on. Not greenfield experiments, but a world class brand new platform with production code that has to be correct, observable, and resilient.
Integration layer that ingests structured data from enterprise sources (Snowflake, BigQuery, SQL databases) and routes it through our platform.
A Snowflake-to-BigQuery bridge over ODBC: custom infrastructure work that will serve as the pattern for all future enterprise integrations.
Webhook-triggered survey automation engine. Business events in the client’s system translate into survey sends through a reliable, auditable event pipeline.
REST APIs consumed by our frontend, enterprise integrations, and third-party clients — you’ll design contracts that have to last.
Event-driven microservices on GCP Pub/Sub and Kafka — async processing, backpressure handling, dead-letter queues, the full picture.
Security and SSO integration for enterprise clients with complex credential and access models.
Permission and access control systems that reflect matrix organizational hierarchies.

What you’ll need

Applicants should be located in the Pacific Time Zone or be willing to relocate to this time zone at their own expense.
Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship. We are unable to support Student Visa as well.
Java you understand at the JVM level.
Spring Boot / Spring ecosystem depth.
SQL and data modelling confidence.
API design instincts.
Systems thinking under failure.
You’ve built something that handles real load.
Bonus Points: .NET / C# experience, GCP experience, Kafka or other message queue experience, Kubernetes and container orchestration, Event sourcing or CQRS patterns, Experience with observability tooling.

Comp & perks

We hire on ability, not tenure. We don’t care whether your experience comes from a top university, a bootcamp, an open-source project, or a side hustle you built at 2am. What we care about is whether you can think clearly, build well, and learn fast.
Our interview process is deliberately hard. If you make it through, you’ll know you earned it — and so will we. We test fundamentals, systems thinking, and the ability to reason through problems you haven’t seen before. We don’t ask you to recite design patterns. We ask you to think.
Our backend interview tests: Java fundamentals and JVM reasoning, systems design, API design, SQL, and your ability to think through distributed system failure modes. We give you real-world scenarios, not toy problems. Expect to discuss trade-offs, not just correct answers.

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Hard Skills & Tools

JavaSpring BootSQLAPI designGCPKafka.NETC#KubernetesEvent sourcing

Soft Skills

systems thinkingproblem solving