Lead Java Full Stack Engineer
$190,000–$230,000 year
On-siteSeattle, Washington, United States
Job Summary
Design, build, and own systems that ingest, correlate, enrich, and surface billions of records across customer-facing products. Lead a small, high-ownership team by writing production-grade backend code daily, setting technical standards, and driving down technical debt. Manage system design for ingestion pipelines, entity resolution, and search indexing while collaborating directly with product and partner teams on requirements. Own services and applications for quality, stability, and reliability, ensuring releases meet engineering standards. Work onsite in Seattle five days a week, utilizing cloud infrastructure to create scalable software systems.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a similar field
- 7+ years of backend software engineering, predominantly in Java on production systems at scale
- Must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future
- Must be able to work onsite in Seattle
- Must be able to work onsite in Seattle
- Track record of technical leadership in a small, high-ownership team — without needing a large org around you to get things done
Desired Qualifications
- Cloud infrastructure experience (GCP preferred, AWS acceptable)
- Deep experience with distributed data pipelines and streaming systems — Kafka or equivalent
- Strong hands-on experience with Elasticsearch or comparable search/indexing platforms
- Solid PostgreSQL or relational DB expertise at meaningful data volumes
- Experience with large-scale data ingestion, transformation, or enrichment systems — entity resolution, deduplication, or data quality pipelines are a strong plus
- Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) in production
- Strong system design instincts: distributed systems, data modeling, API design, fault tolerance
- Experienced and enthusiastic about using AI for productivity and efficiency (github copilot, claude, or equivalent)
- Solid object-oriented design experience including: Domain Driven Design methodology, experience working with service-oriented architectures and Distributed Systems, and an undying belief in the power of testing, CI/CD, and Agile
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