SixMap, Inc.

Senior Backend Engineer

SixMap, Inc.

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • District of Columbia, New York

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AnsibleAWSCloudDistributed SystemsDockerGrafanaJavaJavaScriptKotlinMicroservicesMySQLPostgresPrometheusPythonSpringSpring BootSpringBootTerraformTypeScript

About the role

  • Design and implement highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems and microservices
  • Build robust APIs and backend services using modern frameworks and cloud-native architectures
  • Optimize system performance, reliability, and efficiency at large scale
  • Contribute to architectural decisions and technical roadmap planning
  • Develop and maintain core platform services that enable other engineering teams
  • Implement workflow orchestration and data processing pipelines
  • Build developer tooling and internal APIs to improve engineering productivity
  • Establish best practices for service reliability, observability, and monitoring
  • Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver impactful features
  • Mentor junior engineers and contribute to team technical growth
  • Participate in code reviews, system design discussions, and technical planning
  • Drive technical initiatives from conception through deployment and maintenance
  • Implement comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions
  • Design systems for high availability, disaster recovery, and graceful degradation
  • Participate in on-call rotations and incident response procedures
  • Continuously improve system reliability and operational efficiency

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on backend systems
  • Strong experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale
  • Expert-level proficiency in Java and/or Kotlin or a similar JVM language
  • Experience with Python or similar is a plus
  • Hands-on experience with Spring Boot
  • Proven track record building and operating microservices architectures
  • Production experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
  • Experience with Docker and containerized deployments
  • Strong knowledge of relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL)
  • Experience with data warehouses (Snowflake or similar) is a plus
  • Experience building RESTful APIs and stable contracts for internal and external systems
  • Preferred: Experience with Temporal or similar orchestration engines
  • Preferred: Hands-on experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, or similar)
  • Preferred: Experience with Terraform, Ansible, or similar Infrastructure as Code tools
  • Preferred: Experience with AI Engineering and Graph Databases
  • Preferred: Experience mentoring engineers or leading technical initiatives
  • Strong technical communication skills and ability to work with cross-functional teams
  • Start-up experience
  • All new hires must pass a background check as a condition of employment