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You will take ownership of the product’s core engine and the infrastructure and integration components deployed in customer environments, ensuring reliability, performance, scalability, and seamless integration with customers’ systems.\nWe’re looking for a leader who enjoys solving complex engineering challenges, stays close to the code, and leads through technical expertise while supporting and developing the team.\nWhat will you do?\nLead and mentor a backend engineering team while maintaining a high level of hands-on development.\nOwn the architecture, design, and development of the product’s core engine, infrastructure, and integration components.\nBuild robust, scalable components deployed in diverse customer environments.\nDrive technical decisions and take an active role in coding, code reviews, troubleshooting, and resolving complex issues.\nImprove performance, reliability, maintainability, and deployment processes.\nWork closely with Product, other R&D teams, QA, and customer-facing teams to translate business and customer requirements into technical solutions.\nOwn team delivery, balancing feature development with infrastructure improvements and engineering quality.\nWhat are we looking for?\nProven experience leading a backend development team while remaining highly hands-on.\nStrong backend development skills in Java and/or Go.\nDeep understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, microservices, and integrations.\nExperience developing and troubleshooting software deployed in customer environments.\nThe ability to investigate complex issues across application code, infrastructure, and integrations.\nStrong ownership, sound technical judgment, and the ability to guide and develop engineers.\nRequirements\nB.Sc. or M.Sc. in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.\n7+ years of hands-on backend development (Java, Go)\n1-2+ years leading engineers as a team lead: setting technical direction, mentoring, and owning delivery.\nProven experience designing distributed systems and writing architecture documents, then taking them through review to implementation.\n5+ years of hands-on experience with relational databases: schema design, query optimization and execution plans, indexing, transactions and isolation levels, and connection pooling.\n5+ years building and running microservices on Docker and Kubernetes, including Helm, scaling, and troubleshooting.\nHands-on experience with API gateways and/or service mesh.\nExperience building low-latency, high-throughput services: caching (e.g., Redis), high availability, horizontal scaling, and resilience.\nProficiency in Linux environments, including debugging, networking, and performance tools.\nHands-on experience with at least one major cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and its managed Kubernetes .\nExperience with observability tools: metrics, logging, and tracing (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).\nStrong written and verbal English.\nAdvantages\nEnd-to-end CI/CD from Git to production.\nAuthentication and authorization background: OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, SAML, and IdPs (Okta, Entra ID, Ping). Familiarity with RBAC/ABAC and policy engines (e.g., OPA/Rego) is a plus.\nSecurity engineering: TLS/mTLS, secrets management, and secure coding practices.\nExperience shipping software that runs in customer environments\nAbout PlainID\nPlainID is a category leader in authorization, building the future of Agentic AI access management. We solve the critical identity security challenges that keep Fortune 500 CISOs up at night, empowering global enterprises to adopt AI with confidence.\nBut our technology is only half the story. The other half is our people. We go beyond expectations, take ownership of our work, set a high bar for excellence, look out for one another, and have plenty of fun along the way. 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