TL;DR
Senior Backend Software Engineer (AI): Architecting, developing, and scaling backend services for an AI-driven product quality platform with an accent on high-throughput data pipelines, API design, and system reliability. Focus on microservices architecture, integrating with complex data systems, and ensuring production-grade availability.
Location: Remote (Europe)
Company
Waverley Software is an active development company.
What you will do
- Architect, develop, and scale backend services for an AI-driven product quality platform.
- Design and optimize high-throughput data pipelines and APIs.
- Drive system reliability, availability, and observability in a production environment.
- Build and own API services to securely handle large amounts of data.
- Lead technical design reviews, mentor peers, and set engineering best practices.
- Collaborate with product, ML, and infrastructure teams to deliver new capabilities end-to-end.
Requirements
- 8 years of software engineering experience.
- Demonstrated enthusiasm for applying AI solutions and tools.
- Strong knowledge of Java core and OOP principles, with hands-on experience with Spring Boot and ORM frameworks (Hibernate/JPA).
- Experience designing and building REST APIs and microservices architecture in production environments.
- Strong background in cloud-native development: Kubernetes, containerized deployments, CI/CD pipelines, and hands-on AWS experience.
- Experience with relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or MS SQL.
- At least an Intermediate level of English (both spoken and written).
Nice to have
- Familiarity with Large Language Models (LLMs) and applied AI use cases.
- Exposure to high-throughput event streaming (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis).
- Experience building high-throughput or data-intensive systems.
- Experience in SaaS or product-based companies.
Culture & Benefits
- Flexible working arrangements.