Senior/Staff Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and design for core Conductor services, ensuring scalability, resiliency, and performance at massive scale.
• Tackle complex distributed systems challenges, influencing near-term deliverables and future technical direction.
• Collaborate with product, design, and cross-functional engineering teams to deliver high-impact, business-critical features.
• Mentor engineers at all levels, elevate team practices, and foster technical excellence.
• Champion open-source contributions to Conductor, guiding community engagement and adoption.
• Evaluate and introduce emerging technologies, frameworks, and tooling.
• Establish and enforce best practices in coding standards, testing, observability, and operational readiness.
• Partner with leadership to align engineering initiatives with business strategy and customer needs.

Requirements

• Experience building backend systems, with deep expertise in Java and Spring Boot.
• Proven track record architecting large-scale, distributed systems and event-driven applications.
• Mastery of REST, gRPC, asynchronous messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.), and cloud-native architectures.
• Demonstrated ability to lead large, cross-team technical initiatives from inception to delivery.
• Strong technical mentorship and leadership skills.
• Excellent communication skills to influence technical direction.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Knowledge of containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with API design, REST, and GraphQL.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging systems.

Compensation

Base salary: $200,000 - $260,000.