Principal Backend Engineer

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ABOUT LINGO
Lingo is building a cuttingedge digital health platform that fuses continuous biosensor data highperformance backend engineering and advanced analytics to help people live healthier longer fuller lives. Our systems process massive volumes of realtime data and the backend is the heartbeat of the platform.

THE OPPORTUNITY
Lead the architecture and delivery of scalable cloud-native backend services that power Lingos real-time biosensor platform processing massive volumes of data. Youll drive system reliability performance and security across multi-region deployments enabling global scale and trusted experiences for customers and partners. Our platform processes large volumes of real-time data for IoT-scale ingestion and analytics with services deployed across Kubernetes and integrated streaming systems to support millions of biomarkers readings daily across regions.

WHAT YOULL DO

• Architect and build high-performance microservices for IoT-scale ingestion and real-time analytics design robust APIs and data processing pipelines.
• Design and evolve multi-region cloud-native services on Kubernetes with service mesh for reliability security and traffic management
• Apply best practices in REST and event-driven API design integrate high-throughput messaging (Kafka/RabbitMQ) for real-time transport
• Ensure end-to-end security and data protection in backend services meeting compliance requirements in regulated environments
• Optimize for low latency and high availability: caching backpressure idempotency resiliency patterns and performance tuning
• Define reliability and performance objectives partner with SRE/DevOps on observability incident response and capacity planning
• Establish API versioning schema evolution and data contract practices to ensure backward/forward compatibility across teams
• Collaborate closely with Mobile/Web Data/ML and Platform to align backend capabilities to product goals and AI/analytics use cases
• Participate on architecture reviews mentor engineers and foster technical excellence and a culture of measurable outcomes

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 8 years of backend engineering with a strong focus on distributed systems and microservices deep expertise in Java/Spring Boot and/or Kotlin with relational and NoSQL databases
• Proven experience with cloud-native architectures Kubernetes and service mesh technologies in production
• Strong knowledge of API design (REST event-driven) and real-time messaging/streaming (Kafka RabbitMQ)
• History of delivering high-availability low-latency systems in production environments.
• Demonstrated security and privacy-by-design mindset experience meeting compliance standards in regulated contexts
• Effective technical leadership: leading discussions mentoring and influencing cross-functional stakeholders
  

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with GraphQL gRPC familiarity with schema evolution and consumer-driven contracts like a schema registry-based contract
• Expertise tuning data stores (e.g. Postgres Cassandra) and caches for high-throughput workloads
• Multi-region design patterns traffic shaping and failover on Kubernetes/service meshes
• Observability at scale (OpenTelemetry tracing-driven debugging) API gateways and rate limiting
• Experience supporting AI/ML-serving interfaces and streaming feature inference paths

LINGO CULTURE

Customer-first quality-driven growth-minded and united. Youll set a high bar for reliability and developer experience so teams can ship fast and safely while protecting user trust.

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In specific locations the pay range may vary from the range posted.

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