Senior Software Engineer, Backend – Java/Spring

Teamworks

Senior Software Engineer, Backend at Teamworks working on service-oriented architectures and APIs. Delivering complex features and mentoring junior engineers in a compliance-driven environment.

Posted 5/27/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $185,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

JavaSpringSpring BootSpringBoot

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own feature delivery across Compliance, Recruiting, and Camps, breaking complex work into small, shippable increments and seeing them through from design to production
Design and build internal APIs and data access layers for performant, reliable cross-product data consumption, including the API versioning and service layer work needed to decompose the monolith into a Citadel-style architecture
Diagnose and resolve critical performance issues in the data import pipeline through measurement, testing, and targeted fixes
Provide mentorship and technical direction to junior engineers as a natural part of how you work, not as a side responsibility
Drive code quality through MR reviews, testing practices, and AI-assisted development methods
Participate in on-call rotation and incident response

Requirements

What you’ll need

6+ years of senior-level Java and Spring/Spring Boot experience
Proven experience building internal APIs on top of relational databases, with strong query optimization and schema design skills
Experience working across monolithic and service-oriented architectures, with a track record of decomposing monolithic applications into a service-oriented structure
Experience building or evolving a data access layer that serves multiple internal consumers across a platform
Proficiency with agentic coding tools and AI-assisted development
Experience mentoring junior engineers and developing their problem-solving instincts

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

JavaSpringSpring BootAPI developmentrelational databasesquery optimizationschema designservice-oriented architecturedata access layerAI-assisted development

Soft Skills

mentorshiptechnical directionproblem-solvingcode qualitycollaboration