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Purple Drive Technologies LLC

Sr. Backend Engineer (Java)

Purple Drive Technologies LLC, San Jose, California, United States, 95199

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About the Role We are seeking a Backend Engineer (Java) to build scalable, high-performance services that power our core products. You ll work on distributed systems, design APIs, and collaborate across engineering, product, and DevOps teams. The ideal candidate has strong Java fundamentals, experience in microservices, and a passion for clean, reliable backend architecture.

Key Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain backend services using

Java

and modern frameworks.

Build

RESTful APIs

and event-driven services to support web and mobile applications.

Develop scalable

microservices

with clear ownership, observability, and resilience patterns.

Work with product and frontend teams to translate requirements into robust backend solutions.

Optimize service performance, latency, and throughput in production environments.

Write clean, testable code and create unit/integration tests to ensure reliability.

Participate in architecture/design reviews, code reviews, and sprint planning.

Troubleshoot production issues and contribute to root-cause analysis and prevention.

Collaborate with DevOps/SRE teams on deployment, monitoring, and CI/CD improvements.

Required Qualifications

10+ years of backend software development experience using

Java .

Strong knowledge of

Core Java , OOP, Collections, Multithreading, and JVM basics.

Hands‑on experience with

Spring Boot / Spring MVC / Spring Cloud .

Experience building and consuming

REST APIs

(JSON, OAuth2/JWT a plus).

Solid understanding of microservices patterns (service discovery, config mgmt, circuit breakers).

Experience with databases: SQL

(PostgreSQL / MySQL / Oracle)

Working knowledge of

NoSQL

(MongoDB / Cassandra / DynamoDB) is a plus

Familiarity with messaging/streaming systems such as

Kafka / RabbitMQ / SQS .

Experience with

Git , CI/CD pipelines, and Agile/Scrum practices.

Strong problem‑solving ability and good communication skills.

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