Backend Engineer

• own the technical direction and architecture across several teams building API capabilities
• establish the engineering practices that teams build on
• define how APIs are designed and governed at scale
• lead the effort to embed AI-powered capabilities into the developer experience
• lead the design and delivery of AI capabilities embedded into the developer platform
• architect and build MCP servers exposing the enterprise API catalog as a queryable context
• participate in architecture reviews, design documents, and pull requests

Principal Engineer, API Platform

• Developing and deploying scalable and elegant code
• Work with distributed systems and data pipelines
• Lead and drive projects to completion
• Innovating on creative solutions to difficult problems
• Work with related data infrastructure technologies

• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of scalable GraphQL services and RESTful APIs.
• Define and enforce API standards, schema design best practices, and versioning strategies.
• Drive decisions around backend frameworks, tooling, infrastructure, and observability.
• Ensure systems are secure, performant, resilient, and maintainable.
• Oversee API lifecycle management, including documentation, testing, monitoring, and deprecation.
• Hire, mentor, and develop a high-performing backend engineering team.
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with Product, Client Engineering, DevOps, Research, and Architecture teams to deliver aligned solutions.
• Own roadmap planning, prioritization, and execution for backend services.
• Establish engineering best practices for code quality, CI/CD, testing, and deployment.
• Manage technical debt proactively while balancing feature development.
• Drive observability, logging, metrics, and performance monitoring standards.
• Lead incident response and root cause analysis for backend services.
• Implement reliability practices such as SLIs/SLOs and capacity planning.
• Ensure compliance with security and data governance standards.

Senior Manager, Backend Services

• Responsible for setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale and help your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects.
• Collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle to ensure technical sustainability, risks and trade-offs are well understood and managed.
• Act as a force-multiplier for your team through definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes.
• Take ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring you have the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing and alerting in place to support “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts.
• Foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting code review and design standards and advocating for them beyond your team through writing and tech talks.
• Help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.

Staff Software Engineer, Backend – Marketplace/App Experience

• Design, build, and unit test Java-based applications for data processing
• Develop backend services using Spring Boot and REST APIs
• Build data pipelines integrating data from:
• Relational databases (Oracle)
• Implement event-driven data pipelines using Kafka (or MSK)
• Develop and expose APIs for data access and integration
• Work with structured and semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, etc.)
• Optimize application performance for high-volume data processing
• Deploy applications using Docker containers
• Participate in code deployment and release processes
• Monitor and troubleshoot applications
• Create documentation for usage, deployment, and support
• Participate in agile development (scrum) and collaborate with cross-functional teams

Senior Java Developer

• Design and develop scalable backend systems and APIs using Java services
• Collaborate with Data Scientists and or Data Engineers to build and maintain complex data pipelines using frameworks like Scio, Storm, Spark, and Google Cloud Platform
• Develop expertise in testing practices, including TDD and integration testing
• Ensure high-quality code through automated testing and continuous integration
• Lead high-performance Java service development and operations for millions of users
• Partner with Data Scientists and User Researchers to understand user needs and inform product decisions

Backend Engineer – Advertising

• Develop new features across our Node.js/TypeScript backend services
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Collaborate with frontend developers and product designers to improve usability
• Write robust, clean, and documented code
• Maintain and enhance existing applications
• Conduct performance tests and ensure responsiveness and stability across all platforms

Senior Backend Software Engineer – Node.js/TypeScript

• Lead end-to-end solution architecture and technical design.
• Collaborate directly with clients to gather requirements and provide technical consulting.
• Drive AI adoption by leveraging Claude AI for solutioning and software development.
• Design, develop, and optimize scalable cloud-native applications using Node.js and AWS.
• Improve engineering processes through automation and AI-powered workflows.
• Coordinate with offshore and nearshore engineering teams to ensure successful project delivery.
• Mentor engineers, foster collaboration, and build a high-performing engineering culture.

Tech Lead – Node.js, AWS, AI, Video Streaming

• Responsible for setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and help your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects.
• Collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks and trade-offs are well understood and managed.
• Act as a force-multiplier for your team through your definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes.
• Take ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring you have the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing and alerting in place to support “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts.
• Foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks.
• Help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.

Staff Software Engineer, Backend – Ledger Engineering

• Lead the product strategy for BEAT and define the vision for agent-native backend development across Spotify's platform.
• Shape how AI and LLM-powered capabilities transform the software development lifecycle.
• Stay close to the product by using and evaluating BEAT's developer tools.
• Lead and develop a team of Product Managers, fostering a collaborative, high-performing team.
• Partner closely with the Engineering Area Lead to align priorities.
• Build trusted partnerships with senior engineers and the Backend Advisory Board.
• Collaborate across Product Areas, studios, and the broader Platform Mission to deliver shared infrastructure initiatives.
• Own delivery against Core Infrastructure's strategic commitments.

Group Product Manager – Backend Experience, Core Infrastructure

• Develop, maintain, and optimize scalable Spring Boot application
• Implement clean, modular, and testable Java code
• Contribute to design and implement features following relational (MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB) databases
• Implement and follow best practices in software architecture , leveraging Layered Architecture, DDD, or Event-Driven design
• Troubleshoot and optimize backend performance and security
• Work with DevOps teams to improve CI/CD automation and deployment processes

• Responsible for implementing the various backend systems that support all business features.
• Part of the backend engineer team, responsible for the services and integrations that power products like Payment, Billing, Identity, partner integration, etc.
• Designing, developing, testing, and scaling systems needed to deliver great user and partner experiences.
• Work closely with product, design, and engineering peers to solve users' most pressing problems around rent payment.
• Roll out changes to customers in an agile manner with a delivery cadence that favors small, frequent iterations.
• Comfortable leading scoping, design, and implementation for APIs built and can drive production rollouts to completion with minimum oversight.

Senior Software Engineer, Backend, FinPlatform

• Design, build, and operate the APIs and services that power Nayya's products, partner integrations, and AI agents
• Make our platform genuinely great for agents to consume, clear schemas, predictable behavior, strong guardrails, idempotency, and the observability needed to debug non-deterministic callers
• Define Nayya's agent-facing infrastructure: tool definitions, MCP-style protocols, agent authentication and authorization, action auditing, and safety controls
• Own services end-to-end, from architecture through deployment, monitoring, and on-call
• Improve the developer experience for internal teams, external partners, and the AI engineers building on top of the platform
• Set technical direction for the API Platform: API standards, versioning, authentication, rate limiting, and observability
• Mentor engineers across the company, raise the bar on design reviews, and help shape engineering culture
• Partner closely with security and infrastructure to keep us fast, reliable, and HIPAA-compliant

Senior Software Engineer, API Platform

• Build products within billing and revenue management.
• Support the growth of the organization.
• Collaborate with the team on vision, strategy, and execution of Finance products.

Member of Technical Staff – Transparency, Billing & Revenue

• Assist and/or lead efforts with System Architecture and Technical Design
• Assist and/or lead efforts in database design and construction in MS-SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle and others
• Assist and/or lead efforts as a key contributor in the Application Development functional area
• Write clean, testable, maintainable code and participate in peer code reviews
• Assist and mentor other team members where appropriate

.Net Developer

• Build and maintain backend services and APIs.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers.
• Investigate and resolve production issues and customer-reported bugs.
• Contribute to system design discussions and architectural decisions.
• Continuously improve code quality, testing practices, and development processes.

Senior Backend Software Engineer, NodeJS

• Responsible for development and oversight of the business analytics portfolio of database assets, including Snowflake/SQL data marts, custom views and stored procedures
• Acts as technical liaison and consultant to Database Development team and Business Intelligence teams
• Develops/manages database using a variety database management tools with ability to convert existing databases
• Creates solutions to automate every day processes
• Manage data; Creates macros to automate tasks
• Responsible for application design, development, coding for enhancements and fixes, testing, and performance tuning
• Serves as technical lead for reporting/data analysis services
• Creates, runs, maintains and documents reports on an as-needed basis
• Manages active directory security
• Works with project teams to determine the feasibility and requirements on assigned projects
• Define architecture and standards for web services and interfaces
• Uses and helps to define best practices in all areas of software/application development, including design, coding, documentation, testing & implementation

Senior Database Developer

• Lead the development of large-scale software applications, ensuring high quality and adherence to our quality-first standards
• Influence critical architectural decisions, ensuring that systems are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with business objectives
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align on technical decisions and drive improvements
• Mentor junior engineers, providing guidance on best practices and setting technical standards across projects
• Take ownership of technical initiatives, proactively address challenges, and drive improvements based on data reported by support teams
• Advocate for and implement quality assurance practices, ensuring the delivery of robust, high-performance software
• Contribute to additional responsibilities as needed to support the team’s success

Senior Software Engineer, Java

• Develop and execute a strategy to build, grow, and foster a vibrant community of Agentforce practitioners.
• Spend approximately 50% of the time as a billable individual contributor on strategic Professional Services customer engagements.
• Create and maintain an evolving library of enablement content.
• Design and deliver live enablement sessions, webinars, and other training events.
• Develop and run initiatives to support CSG employees in achieving Agentforce certifications.
• Actively engage with the internal community and provide guidance.

Community Lead – Senior Technical Architect

• evolve Hex's execution architecture
• drive parallel execution strategies and caching approaches
• instrument complex systems to diagnose performance problems
• collaborate across engineering and product
• author and review technical proposals
• propose and roadmap long-term designs

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Principal Engineer, API Platform

Backend Engineer

Senior Manager, Backend Services

Staff Software Engineer, Backend – Marketplace/App Experience

Senior Java Developer

Backend Engineer – Advertising

Senior Backend Software Engineer – Node.js/TypeScript

Tech Lead – Node.js, AWS, AI, Video Streaming

Staff Software Engineer, Backend – Ledger Engineering

Group Product Manager – Backend Experience, Core Infrastructure

Backend Engineer

Senior Software Engineer, Backend, FinPlatform

Senior Software Engineer, API Platform

Member of Technical Staff – Transparency, Billing & Revenue

.Net Developer

Senior Backend Software Engineer, NodeJS

Senior Database Developer

Senior Software Engineer, Java

Community Lead – Senior Technical Architect

Staff Software Engineer, Backend – Platform