Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

GUDEA is a company that empowers organizations with narrative intelligence tools to understand information dynamics. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will lead critical projects, collaborate with various teams to create innovative solutions, and mentor other engineers in a fast-paced startup environment.

Responsibilities:

• Lead architectural decisions and guide technical direction to ensure system efficiency and maintainability
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers to develop innovative features and solutions
• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality, scalable, and secure software solutions
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code while following best practices in software development
• Ensure security, compliance, and data integrity in all engineering solutions
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve complex technical issues in production and development environments
• Drive performance optimization, scalability improvements, and system reliability initiatives
• Conduct thorough code reviews, provide mentorship, and foster a culture of technical excellence within the team
• Own and improve the CI/CD pipeline to enhance deployment speed and reliability
• Stay up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies, advocating for best practices and new tools where appropriate

Requirements:

• Education: 4-year degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical discipline
• Experience: 5-10+ years in professional full-stack or backend-focused software engineering roles
• Proven engineering experience in owning and operating production API and backend systems end-to-end (e.g., APIs, data stores, services)
• Strong system design and architectural judgment
• Ability to work independently, lead by example, and communicate technical tradeoffs clearly
• Pragmatic, execution-oriented mindset in fast-moving environments
• Experience using Spring Framework / Spring Boot and Java to build production applications
• Experience building Temporal workflows and activities
• Experience integrating with third-party APIs
• Experience building containerized applications with tools like Docker
• Experience with distributed version control systems like Git
• Experience using AI-assisted and/or agentic workflows
• Experience with large-scale data stores
• Experience with SQL database optimization
• Experience with graph databases like Neo4j