Senior Software Engineer – Java
Versa Networks
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Staff Backend Engineer
Plentiful.ai
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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Lead
Tech Stack
Distributed SystemsSQL
About the role
- Maintain and evolve our workflow orchestration system that runs across serverless and containerized environments, processing millions of tasks each month.
- Design scheduling, queuing, rate limiting, and retry logic for reliable and fair resource allocation.
- Build mechanisms for state tracking, error handling, timeouts, and cleanup across distributed tasks.
- Partner with DevOps on observability, structured logging, tracing, and deployment automation.
- Design and optimize schemas for flexible data storage and user-defined structures.
- Improve performance across large datasets (100M+ rows) using indexing, replication, and connection pooling.
- Ensure ACID compliance, concurrency control, and referential integrity.
- Implement audit logging, data lineage tracking, and compliant data retention policies.
- Collaborate with DevOps on replication, backups, and disaster recovery.
- Manage integrations with SFTP, email, databases, spreadsheets, and REST APIs, with secure credential and failure recovery handling.
- Build and maintain file processing pipelines that handle millions of files per month.
- Work with healthcare data formats (HL7, X12, EDI) and standard file types (PDF, Excel, CSV, JSON).
- Develop webhook handlers, polling services, and event-driven workflows to ensure data consistency.
- Collaborate with ML/AI teams on data pipelines for model training and inference.
- Lead technical projects and set quality and reliability standards for the backend team.
- Identify and reduce technical debt; plan and execute major system improvements and migrations.
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, design sessions, and pair programming.
- Participate in incident response and postmortems, focusing on long-term reliability.
- Write and review RFCs to document and guide key architectural decisions.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong background in distributed systems, workflow orchestration, and large-scale task processing.
- Advanced database expertise: SQL, schema design, query tuning, and operations at scale.
- Solid computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, system design).
- Experience building and maintaining large-scale data pipelines and external integrations.
- 3+ years of technical leadership, guiding projects and mentoring engineers.
- Proven experience leading re-architecture or modernization efforts.
- Track record of improving reliability, managing incidents, and reducing technical debt.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for documentation and cross-team collaboration.
- Experience working closely with DevOps, observability, and ML/AI teams.
Benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- Health insurance
- Meal stipend
- Health & wellness stipend
- Team offsites
- 401K matching
- Stock options
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
workflow orchestrationdistributed systemslarge-scale task processingSQLschema designquery tuningdata pipelineswebhook handlersevent-driven workflowsACID compliance
Soft skills
technical leadershipmentoringcommunicationcollaborationincident responsedocumentationproject guidancecode reviewsdesign sessionsreducing technical debt
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