In Tandem

Senior Backend Engineer

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2 months ago
Remote, United StatesSenior

Responsibilities

  • Author specifications and orchestrate AI agents through feature delivery.
  • Review AI-generated features for hallucinated APIs, dropped edge cases, architectural problems, and other failure modes.
  • Design and ship backend solutions from planning through production, including multiple production releases per day.
  • Build reusable skills, plugins, and custom agent workflows for engineering teams.
  • Collaborate with product managers, designers, QA analysts, automation engineers, web engineers, mobile engineers, and leadership.
  • Rotate across teams and products while developing platform, architecture, and domain expertise.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of production software engineering experience with deep backend expertise in Java or another statically typed language such as Kotlin, C#, or Go.
  • Demonstrated experience with specification-driven development and features shipped by agents from authored specifications.
  • Daily hands-on experience using AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot Agent, or OpenAI Codex as a primary development interface.
  • Experience building reusable skills, plugins, custom agent workflows, MCP servers, Claude skills, Cursor rules, or Copilot extensions.
  • Strong judgment reviewing AI-generated code and identifying hallucinations, edge cases, and architectural weaknesses.
  • Strong knowledge of relational databases, ORM technologies such as Hibernate, API design, object-oriented analysis, and common design patterns.
  • Proven experience delivering software from inception to production in a cross-functional team with continuous production delivery.
  • Preferred qualifications include Java/Spring/Spring Boot, React/Web, iOS, Android, Docker, Kubernetes, Bitbucket Pipelines, Jira, Confluence, Confluent Cloud, Kafka, agile delivery, rotational or multi-team experience, and family or legal technology experience.

Benefits

  • Medical coverage with the company paying 100% of the employee premium and 99% of additional family-member premiums.
  • 401(k) with up to a 4% match and immediate vesting.
  • Paid leave for new parents.
  • Learning and Development stipend.
  • 11 holidays, a three-day winter break, one Volunteer Time Off day, and one floating holiday.
  • Personal Time Off of 15 days for 0–1 years of employment and 20 days for 1–3 years of employment.
  • Flexible work-from-anywhere arrangement.

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