Senior Backend Software Engineer
Company: LogicGate
Location: Remote USA
Salary: $125k - $165k per year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-10-19
About this role
- As a Senior Software Engineer: Platform, you will design and scale the foundational APIs and backend services powering LogicGate’s Risk Cloud platform
- As enterprise GRC demands expand, you will tackle critical system bottlenecks, optimize cloud data stores, and ensure high-availability multi-tenant reliability
- Working in Java/Kotlin, Spring Boot, and AWS, you will solve complex architectural challenges while elevating technical standards across the engineering chapter
- In this role, your technical leadership will directly ensure our platform remains scalable, resilient, and performant
- System & Data Architecture: Design and build high-throughput backend services, core platform APIs, and distributed data stores using Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, Neo4j, Redis, PostgreSQL, and RabbitMQ to expand multi-tenant Risk Cloud capabilities
- Quality & Continuous Delivery: Write robust unit, integration, and service-level tests while partnering with DevOps to evolve cloud infrastructure and automated CI/CD pipelines (AWS, Terraform, Docker, GitLab CI)
- Observability & Optimization: Monitor operational metrics, tracing, and alerts in Datadog to proactively diagnose system bottlenecks, optimize database query performance, and ensure platform health
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Facilitate technical design reviews, decompose complex epics alongside Product and Design teams, and mentor engineers across squads to elevate code quality and execution
- AI Workflow Efficiency: Leverage AI coding assistants, LLMs, and modern developer automation tools to streamline engineering workflows, refactor legacy patterns, and accelerate feature delivery velocity
### Benefits
- 47 days off starting your first year, including paid volunteer time
- 12 weeks parental leave
- $1,000 annual educational stipend
- Ongoing learning and development
- Stock options and annual performance bonus opportunities- AI Literacy & Agentic Tooling: Demonstrated curiosity and practical experience leveraging ...