Sr. Director Backend Engineer (Java)

📋 Description

• Lead architecture, design, and implementation of Quest v2 migration initiatives.
• Develop production-grade Java and Spring Boot apps for high-volume, event-driven systems.
• Define patterns for event processing, state management, testing, deployment, and recovery.
• Design and optimize Kafka-based event processing for scalability and reliability.
• Resolve MySQL bottlenecks via schema design, caching, partitioning, and asynchronous processing.
• Drive production readiness, resilience testing, and operational excellence.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering with hands-on development and leadership.
• Strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and event-driven architecture.
• Distributed systems: concurrency, eventual consistency, idempotency, fault tolerance.
• Strong MySQL performance tuning, schema design, and scalability.
• Experience with Redis, REST APIs, asynchronous workflows, high-volume systems.
• Proven experience modernizing legacy platforms and migrating live workloads.
• Strong troubleshooting, performance optimization, root-cause analysis.