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Senior Backend Engineer (Java)

Senior Backend Engineer (Java)

MathpixNew York, NY, United States
5 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

About the role

We are a small (but quickly-growing) and dedicated team committed to pushing the boundaries of what is possible in computer vision and AI-powered document processing. We are profitable and help power some of the world's biggest LLMs providers, EdTech, and AI companies. We are headquartered in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY but have a small remote team as well.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain backend services in Java, focusing on performance, scalability, and reliability
  • Lead the migration of selected APIs and services to Java, ensuring minimal disruption to existing systems
  • Develop and maintain RESTful APIs and microservices used by internal and external applications
  • Collaborate with ML engineers and frontend developers to integrate new OCR features into production systems
  • Implement observability and monitoring tools to ensure system reliability and quick issue resolution
  • Contribute to CI / CD pipelines, containerization, and infrastructure-as-code for backend services
  • Mentor other engineers in Java best practices and backend design patterns

Required Skills

Required Skills

  • Strong proficiency in Java for building APIs, services, and distributed systems
  • 3+ years of backend engineering experience, with at least 2+ years in Java-based production environments
  • Experience with SQL databases, schema design, and query optimization
  • Hands-on experience building and maintaining microservices, including service-to-service communication and API design
  • Proficiency with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
  • Familiarity with caching systems (Redis) and message queues (Kafka)
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts
  • Additional desired skills

    Additional desired skills

  • Familiarity with Python
  • Experience with cloud platforms
  • Contributions to open-source projects or thought leadership in backend development
  • Knowledge of performance profiling, JVM tuning, and debugging tools for Java applications
  • Mathpix values

    Mathpix values

  • A strong sense of ownership and accountability for the systems you build
  • A collaborative mindset with a willingness to mentor and be mentored
  • Passion for solving complex problems with elegant, pragmatic solutions
  • Resilience and self-direction — the ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment, where priorities evolve and autonomy is key
  • Seniority level

  • Mid-Senior level
  • Employment type

  • Full-time
  • Job function

  • Engineering and Information Technology
  • Industries
  • Software Development
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