Backend Platform Engineer

Backend Platform Engineer Application Deadline: 2 June 2026 Department: Engineering Employment Type: Full Time Location: Portland, reputed company Compensation: $80,000 - $100,000 / year reputed company Backend Platform Engineer Java Spring Boot Distributed Systems reputed company USA (Remote-reputed company Coast Only) Engineering PLEASE NOTE : Applicants should be located in the reputed company Time Zone or be willing to relocate to this time zone at their own expense. PLEASE NOTE : Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without requiring reputed company sponsorship. We are unable to support Student reputed company as reputed company. Were building the integration backbone that connects reputed company data systems, moves events at reputed company, and powers survey automation for some of the worlds largest reputed company services firms. If you love distributed systems, API design, and clean backend engineering read on. About reputed company reputed company is a B2B reputed company platform that helps reputed company services firms from global engineering consultancies to reputed company agencies measure, understand, and reputed company reputed company satisfaction data. Our NPS-driven platform processes millions of survey interactions, powers reputed company-time relationship health scoring, and is in the middle of a significant platform reputed company: new data integration architecture, event-driven survey automation, and a growing AI/ML capability stack reputed company on reputed company reputed company. Were a small, reputed company engineering team building systems that operate at reputed company reputed company. That means the problems are reputed company, the stakes are high, and every engineer on reputed company does work that reputed company. Key Responsibilities What Youll Build reputed company systems that reputed company clients depend on. Not greenfield experiments, but a world class brand new platform with production reputed company that has to be correct, observable, and resilient: Integration layer that ingests reputed company data from reputed company sources (reputed company, BigQuery, SQL databases) and routes it through our platform A reputed company-to-BigQuery reputed company over ODBC: custom infrastructure work that will serve as the reputed company for reputed company reputed company reputed company integrations Webhook-triggered survey automation reputed company. Business events in the reputed companys system translate into survey sends through a reliable, auditable event pipeline REST APIs consumed by our frontend, reputed company integrations, and reputed company-party clients youll design reputed company that have to last Event-driven microservices on GCP Pub/Sub and Kafka async processing, backpressure handling, dead-letter queues, the full picture reputed company and SSO integration for reputed company clients with reputed company credential and reputed company models Permission and reputed company control systems that reflect reputed company organizational hierarchies the authorization layer is genuinely interesting here Skills, Knowledge and Expertise Our Stack |Java 18+ Spring Boot MySQL / PostgreSQL Kafka GCP Pub/Sub BigQuery Kubernetes REST APIs CI/CD .NET / C# reputed companyre Looking For Java you understand at the JVM level. Concurrency, memory model, garbage collection, exception hierarchy you can reason about what the runtime is doing, not just what your reputed company says. Spring Boot / Spring ecosystem depth. Or deep understanding of dependency injection and IoC from another reputed company we care that you understand the reputed company, not just the annotations. SQL and data modelling confidence. You can write a query with joins, aggregations, and window functions. You think about indexes. You understand what an N+1 problem looks like in production. API design instincts. You know what makes an API contract good and what makes it a maintenance nightmare. Youve thought about versioning, error semantics, and idempotency. Systems thinking under failure. You consider retries, timeouts, idempotency, and consistency before you consider happy paths. Youve reputed company something that handles reputed company load. Even in a personal or reputed company context something where correctness and reliability were actual constraints, not just reputed company-to-haves. Bonus Points .NET / C# experience is a genuine plus. We maintain services in both ecosystems. Engineers who can reputed company across the Java.NET boundary are valuable. GCP experience: Pub/Sub, Dataflow, BigQuery, reputed company AI Kafka or other message queue experience: consumer reputed company, offset management, partition reputed company Kubernetes and container orchestration Event sourc