Staff Software EngineerAQM Media

Role Overview

Design build and operate the server-side systems that power our screen recording platform. This role focuses on developing scalable reliable backend services and APIs that support recording session orchestration large file ingestion and secure data handling. You will be a core contributor to a Java-based cloud-native microservices architecture that supports real-time and asynchronous workloads at scale.

Key Responsibilities

Service & API Development

• Design develop and maintain performant backend services using Java and Spring Boot.

• Build and evolve RESTful APIs for core platform capabilities including recording session lifecycle file and chunk uploads and user/account management.

• Implement reliable ingestion pipelines for large video chunks with retries idempotency and failure handling.

• Ensure secure efficient data storage and retrieval using cloud-managed databases.

• Implement robust authentication and authorization mechanisms to protect platform resources and APIs.

Architecture Quality & Reliability

• Contribute to the design and evolution of a microservices-based architecture balancing scalability maintainability and operational simplicity.

• Write clean well-structured and thoroughly tested code including unit integration and API-level tests.

• Participate actively in code and design reviews maintaining a high engineering bar.

• Implement structured logging metrics monitoring and alerting to support production observability.

• Continuously optimize performance and scalability to handle increasing traffic and data volume.

Collaboration & Operations

• Work closely with desktop frontend and data engineering teams to deliver end-to-end features.

• Participate in the full software development lifecycle from design and implementation to deployment and ongoing maintenance.

• Contribute to a strong DevOps culture including CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments.

• Assist in debugging incident response and root-cause analysis for production issues.

Technical Stack

Language

• Java

Frameworks

• Spring Boot

• Spring Security

• Spring Data

Cloud

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Databases

• NoSQL (e.g. Google Cloud Datastore DynamoDB)

• Relational (e.g. PostgreSQL MySQL)

Messaging & Async Processing

• Pub/Sub Kafka or similar distributed messaging systems

Testing

• JUnit

• Mockito

• Spring Test

Containerization & Orchestration

• Docker

• Kubernetes

Required Qualifications

• 3 years of experience in backend software development.

• Strong proficiency in Java and the Spring Boot ecosystem.

• Hands-on experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs.

• Experience working with cloud platforms (GCP or AWS).

• Familiarity with both SQL and NoSQL databases.

• Solid understanding of testing debugging and production readiness.