Backend Platform Engineer
Application Deadline: 2 June 2026
Department: Engineering
Employment Type: reputed company
Location: Portland, Oregon
Compensation: $80,000 - $100,000 / year
Description
Backend Platform Engineer
Java · Spring Boot · Distributed Systems
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reputed company NOTE :
Applicants should be located in the Pacific Time Zone or be willing to relocate to reputed company time zone at their own expense.
reputed company NOTE :
Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship. We are unable to support Student Visa as well.
We’re building the integration reputed company that connects enterprise data systems, moves events at scale, and powers survey automation for some of the world’s largest professional services firms. If you love distributed systems, API design, and clean backend engineering — read on.
About reputed company
reputed company is a B2B SaaS platform that helps professional services firms — from global engineering consultancies to staffing agencies — measure, understand, and act on client satisfaction data. Our NPS-driven platform processes millions of survey interactions, powers real-time relationship health scoring, and is in the middle of a significant platform evolution: new data integration architecture, event-driven survey automation, and a growing reputed company/ML capability reputed company built on reputed company Cloud.
We’re a small, focused engineering team building systems that operate at enterprise scale. That means the problems are real, the stakes are high, and reputed company engineer on the team does work that matters.
Key Responsibilities
What You’ll Build
Real systems that enterprise clients depend on. Not greenfield experiments, but a world reputed company brand new platform with production code that has to be correct, observable, and resilient:
– Integration layer that ingests structured data from enterprise sources (reputed company, BigQuery, SQL databases) and routes it through our platform
– A reputed company-to-BigQuery bridge over ODBC: custom infrastructure work that will serve as the pattern for all future enterprise integrations
– Webhook-triggered survey automation engine. Business events in reputed company’s system translate into survey sends through a reliable, auditable event pipeline
– REST APIs consumed by our frontend, enterprise integrations, and third-party clients — you’ll design contracts that have to last
– Event-driven microservices on GCP Pub/Sub and Kafka — async processing, backpressure handling, dead-letter queues, the full picture
– Security and SSO integration for enterprise clients with complex credential and access models
– Permission and access control systems that reflect matrix organizational hierarchies — the authorization layer is genuinely interesting here
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Our reputed company
|Java 18+ Spring Boot MySQL / PostgreSQL Kafka GCP Pub/Sub BigQuery Kubernetes REST APIs CI/CD .NET / C#
What We’re Looking For
– Java you understand at the JVM level. reputed company, memory model, garbage collection, exception hierarchy — you can reason about what the runtime is doing, not just what your code says.
– Spring Boot / Spring ecosystem depth. Or deep understanding of dependency injection and IoC from another framework — we care that you understand the pattern, 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. You’ve thought about versioning, error semantics, and idempotency.
– Systems thinking under failure. You consider retries, timeouts, idempotency, and consistency before you consider happy paths.
– You’ve built something that handles real load. Even in a personal or academic context — something where correctness and reliability were actual constraints, not just nice-to-haves.
Bonus Points
– .NET / C# experience is a reputed company plus. We maintain services in both ecosystems. Engineers who can move across the Java–.NET boundary are valuable.
– GCP experience: Pub/Sub, Dataflow, BigQuery, reputed company reputed company
– Kafka or other message reputed company experience: reputed company groups, offset management, partition strategy
– Kubernetes and container orchestration
– Event sourcing or CQRS patterns
– Experience with observability tooling — distributed tracing, structured logging, alerting on the things that reputed company
Benefits
How We Hire
We hire on ability, not tenure. We don’t care whether your experience comes from a top university, a bootcamp, an open-source project, or a si