Senior Backend Software Engineer, Java | Kafka TheLoops

TheLoops empowers leaders and teams to transform their work through our innovative agentic platform driving increased efficiency and operational scale across multiple large industry segments. Were looking for a Senior Engineer to help design and build the backbone of real-time distributed AI platforms. Youll work on systems that orchestrate massive data flows reactive services and agentic workloadsplatforms that must adapt dynamically and operate reliably under heavy and unpredictable load. Collaborate across engineering teams to deliver infrastructure that is scalable resilient and observable by design.

If youre passionate about high-performance computing resilient architecture and enabling real-time intelligence this role is for you.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable distributed platform components using Java Kafka Akka (Typed) gRPC or similar technologies.
• Build and optimize data pipelines capable of handling high-throughput events with low latency and high reliability.
• Lead efforts in agentic scalingdynamically spawning routing and managing intelligent agent workloads.
• Develop resilient systems that self-heal auto-scale and degrade gracefully under pressure.
• Define and implement metrics tracing and observability for end-to-end system behavior and performance.
• Collaborate closely with infrastructure SRE and product teams to align platform scalability with growth and reliability goals.
• Investigate and resolve performance bottlenecks and propose long-term architectural improvements.
• Participate in on-call rotations architecture reviews and technical design sessions.

Qualifications :

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience building distributed systems in production.
• Strong expertise with Kafka (topics partitions consumers tuning schema registry stream processing) or similar messaging/event systems.
• Experience building highly concurrent event-driven or distributed systems using frameworks like Akka or Erlang.
• Solid Java programming skills; experience with concurrency and modern Java frameworks.
• Understanding of agentic workloads and dynamic system orchestration (microservices representing intelligent agents).
• Experience designing scalable APIs message protocols (Protobuf Avro) and event-driven architectures.
• Familiarity with cloud-native environments (Kubernetes service mesh container orchestration).

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience with serverless or function-as-a-service scaling models.

• Contributions to open-source distributed systems projects.
• Exposure to AI/ML-driven orchestration or agentic frameworks.
• Familiarity with observability tooling: Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry Kafka monitoring etc.

Who You Are

We are an AI company. This means you approach your work with a growth mindset and find ways to leverage AI to help make faster smarter decisions that will 10X your impact at TheLoops.

• Passionately curious about AI: You possess a working understanding of AI fundamentals including LLMs embeddings prompt engineering and vector databases and youre committed to staying at the forefront of this rapidly evolving field.
• A natural educator: You thrive on seeing others grasp new concepts and measure your impact by their breakthroughs in understanding.
• Technically adept: Youre comfortable diving into technical documentation from code to research papers and can confidently discuss complex topics with both developers and executives.
• A proven builder: You have a history of successfully creating and launching educational platforms documentation portals training programs or learning communities. If not youre eager to demonstrate your capability in this area.
• Seamless cross-functional communicator: You excel at bridging communication gaps effortlessly translating technical and business concepts between product managers engineers marketers and customers.

Additional Information :

What Were Offering

• Salary Range:  $00 total comp
• Flexible paid time off including sick and holiday
•  Medical dental & vision insurance
•  401K with Company contribution
•  Flexible spending accounts
•  Life insurance and disability benefits
•  Tuition assistance
•  Community involvement and volunteering events

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time