Backend Engineer

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About us

AgileEngine is an Inc. 5000 company that creates award-winning software for Fortune 500 brands and trailblazing startups across 17+ industries. We rank among the leaders in areas like application development and AI/ML, and our people-first culture has earned us multiple Best Place to Work awards.

If you're looking for a place to grow, make an impact, and work with people who care, we'd love to meet you!

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and enhance software solutions across our technology stack. You will contribute to maintaining existing systems while leading the development of new features that power our real-time translation platform. In this role, you will often guide a small engineering team, defining technical plans, ensuring requirements are met, and staying hands-on in implementation. Your expertise will also shape our engineering practices, helping us deliver high-quality, reliable software to users worldwide.

What you will do

• Be hands-on in architecting and implementing software solutions from a given set of requirements either as an individual contributor or as a technical lead;
• Create technical work plans and execute on those plans to meet individual business objectives;
• Assist in maintaining existing backend services.

Must haves

• 6+ years of hands-on experience in architecting, implementing, and delivering software engineering solutions from set product requirements;
• 2+ years of experience in leading software development work in some capacity;
• Deep experience with Java;
• Experience with Kotlin;
• Experience with distributed messaging brokers and/or event streaming platforms such as RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ, or Kafka;
• Experience in Realtime Messaging developments;
• Experience using the Git version control system;
• Comfortable working with a fully remote team;
• Self-motivated and able to work independently with minimal supervision;
• Upper-Intermediate English level.

Nice to haves

• Experience working with dependency injection frameworks such as Micronaut, Spring Boot, etc.;
• JavaScript and WebSocket experience are also highly valued;
• Familiarity with microservice architectures;
• Experience with distributed NoSQL databases such as Mongo, Cassandra, etc.;
• Experience with distributed caches such as Redis, Valkey, etc.;
• Experience in setting up CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins, GitLab, TravisCI, etc.;
• Manipulating real-time audio streams.;
• Developing Node.js applications.;
• B.S. degree in Computer Science or equivalent from an accredited institution.

The benefits of joining us

• Professional growth

Accelerate your professional journey with mentorship, TechTalks, and personalized growth roadmaps

• Competitive compensation

We match your ever-growing skills, talent, and contributions with competitive USD-based compensation and budgets for education, fitness, and team activities

• A selection of exciting projects

Join projects with modern solutions development and top-tier clients that include Fortune 500 enterprises and leading product brands

• Flextime

Tailor your schedule for an optimal work-life balance, by having the options of working from home and going to the office – whatever makes you the happiest and most productive.