Staff Software Engineer – Microservices Architecture

Description

The team owns the mobile backend-for-frontend platform and the back-office integration architecture behind the company's mobile ownership experiences.

The role sets the technical direction for this platform, raises engineering quality across microservices and cloud-native systems, and guides the shift toward scalable DevOps and AI-assisted operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design and evolution of the platform and its core microservices for mobile ownership experiences.
• Set the technical strategy for scalable APIs, orchestration services, integration patterns and platform capabilities across REST, GraphQL, WebSockets and event-driven systems.
• Set engineering standards for reliability, resilience, observability, security and operational readiness, including SLOs, SLAs and service health expectations.
• Improve DevOps maturity by defining CI/CD standards, release automation, progressive delivery, environment strategy and production support practices.
• Promote AI-enabled engineering and operations, including code generation support, anomaly detection, operational analysis, incident triage, capacity forecasting and developer productivity.
• Work with product, architecture, security, SRE and operations, and dependent engineering groups to match platform direction to business priorities and enterprise standards.
• Lead complex design reviews, production readiness reviews, incident reviews and modernization work to improve reliability, delivery speed and maintainability.
• Mentor senior engineers and multiply your impact across the organization by raising technical quality and sharpening decisions and execution.
• Find ways to reduce platform complexity, increase reuse, standardize patterns and speed up onboarding and delivery across services.
• Keep architecture, APIs and platform workflows documented, with clear technical standards, playbooks and governance.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including significant Java and Spring Boot microservice work.
• Track record of leading architecture and technical direction for distributed or platform-level backend services.
• Hands-on experience designing and running scalable microservices, APIs and cloud-native applications in production.
• Strong hands-on work with Azure cloud services, Kubernetes deployments and modern DevOps practices.
• Ability to define and improve CI/CD pipelines, release practices, observability strategy and operational excellence standards.
• Solid grasp of quality practices, including TDD, automated testing, code review discipline and engineering governance.
• Strong SQL database experience with Oracle or PostgreSQL.
• Excellent communication, technical leadership and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Preferred: experience leading modernization, reliability engineering and operational maturity work across several services or teams.
• Preferred: hands-on expertise with Azure services such as AKS, API Management, Functions, Cosmos DB, SQL Database, Azure Monitor and Application Insights.
• Preferred: exposure to Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Preferred: strong experience with observability platforms such as Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, OpenTelemetry and distributed tracing.
• Preferred: experience applying AI-enabled practices to software engineering, platform operations, incident management and developer productivity.
• Preferred: experience with GraphQL, WebSockets, service mesh, API gateway patterns and event-driven architecture.
• Preferred: strong understanding of security architecture, including OAuth2, JWT, identity integration, secrets management and secure service-to-service communication.
• Preferred: familiarity with mobile platforms, enterprise back-office systems or large-scale customer-facing backend ecosystems.
• Preferred: experience mentoring and aligning architecture and engineering standards across senior individual contributors and multiple delivery teams.
• Preferred: strong strategic thinking, problem-solving and execution leadership in Agile environments.
• Preferred: experience developing microservices with NodeJS, TypeScript, JavaScript and/or Go.

Conditions

Hybrid role: report to Austin, TX or Warren, MI three times per week.

The company does not provide immigration sponsorship for this role, now or in the future. This covers direct sponsorship, the company acting as employer of record on a government form, and any work authorization that needs a written submission or other immigration support from the company, such as H-1B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN or J-1.

Candidates may be required to complete a role-related assessment and/or a pre-employment screening before starting.

The company is committed to equal employment opportunity and an inclusive workplace.

Benefits

• Relocation benefits may be available for this role.
• Well-being support is offered from day one, at work and at home.
• Total rewards resources describe the career and pay package in more detail.