Senior Backend Engineer, Java
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Senior Backend Engineer designing and developing Java-based backend services for In Tandem's family coordination solutions. Collaborating across teams to enhance technology that supports families.
Responsibilities:
- At In Tandem, we build technology that helps families manage everyday routines and navigate life’s biggest transitions.
- If you want your work to make a real difference in the daily lives of parents and kids, In Tandem is the place where your impact will truly matter.
- As a Senior Backend Engineer (Java), you'll join us in a unique rotational capacity that offers broad platform exposure and accelerated career growth.
- In this role, you'll directly contribute to features that make everyday life a little bit easier for families.
- Working as part of product teams, you'll collaborate with product managers, designers, QA analysts, automation engineers, and other web and mobile engineers to solve meaningful problems for parents, children, and practitioners across our platforms.
- You'll be building robust, scalable backend services and APIs that power our family coordination platforms, working with modern technologies including AI-powered features that directly impact millions of families.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of Java development experience
- Analytical mindset and good problem-solving skills
- Experience in the Spring Framework and Spring Boot
- Proven experience delivering software applications/features from inception to shipping within a cross-functional team environment
- Object Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns
- Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases and ORM technologies (Hibernate)
- Experience with AI development tooling and integrations (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, or similar AI-powered CLI's and IDE's)
- Proficiency with AI-assisted development workflows including code generation, debugging assistance, automated testing, documentation creation, and architectural exploration
- Ability to architect AI-integrated solutions and make informed decisions about how to leverage AI technologies in software development
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes (great to have)
- Experience with Atlassian products for CI/CD (Bitbucket Pipelines, Jira, Confluence) (great to have)
- Experience with Confluent Cloud (Kafka) (great to have)
- Experience with writing and maintaining tests (great to have)
- Experience with iterative, agile based software delivery processes (great to have)
- Experience working across multiple product teams or in rotational capacities (great to have)
- Experience in family technology, legal technology, or complex platform environments (great to have)
- Strong judgment in AI-assisted development - effectively leveraging AI tools to accelerate engineering across all domains while maintaining code ownership, quality standards, and using AI capabilities to enhance rather than replace engineering rigor.
Benefits:
- Medical: In Tandem pays 100% of the premium for employees AND 99% for all additional family members
- 401k: Up to a 4% match with immediate vesting
- Paid leave for all new parents
- Learning & Development stipend for employees
- Paid Time Off: 11 Holidays + Winter Break (3 Days) + Volunteer Time Off (1 Day) + Floating Holiday (1 Day)
- Personal Time Off: 15 days for 0-1 years of employment + 20 days for 1-3 years of employment
- Supportive and flexible working environment – work from anywhere!















