Backend Platform Engineer

### **Description** **Backend Platform Engineer** Java · Spring Boot · Distributed Systems **ClearlyRated · USA (Remote\-West Coast Only) · Engineering** ***PLEASE NOTE :*** ***Applicants should be located in the Pacific Time Zone or be willing to relocate to this time zone at their own expense.*** ***PLEASE NOTE :*** ***Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship. We are unable to support Student Visa as well.*** We’re building the integration backbone that connects enterprise data systems, moves events at scale, and powers survey automation for some of the world’s largest professional services firms. If you love distributed systems, API design, and clean backend engineering — read on. **About ClearlyRated** ClearlyRated is a B2B SaaS platform that helps professional services firms — from global engineering consultancies to staffing agencies — measure, understand, and act on client satisfaction data. Our NPS\-driven platform processes millions of survey interactions, powers real\-time relationship health scoring, and is in the middle of a significant platform evolution: new data integration architecture, event\-driven survey automation, and a growing AI/ML capability stack built on Google Cloud. We’re a small, focused engineering team building systems that operate at enterprise scale. That means the problems are real, the stakes are high, and every engineer on the team does work that matters.### **Key Responsibilities** **What You’ll Build** Real systems that enterprise clients depend on. Not greenfield experiments, but a world class brand new platform with production code that has to be correct, observable, and resilient: – Integration layer that ingests structured data from enterprise sources (Snowflake, BigQuery, SQL databases) and routes it through our platform – A Snowflake\-to\-BigQuery bridge over ODBC: custom infrastructure work that will serve as the pattern for all future enterprise integrations – Webhook\-triggered survey automation engine. Business events in the client’s system translate into survey sends through a reliable, auditable event pipeline – REST APIs consumed by our frontend, enterprise integrations, and third\-party clients — you’ll design contracts that have to last – Event\-driven microservices on GCP Pub/Sub and Kafka — async processing, backpressure handling, dead\-letter queues, the full picture – Security and SSO integration for enterprise clients with complex credential and access models – Permission and access control systems that reflect matrix organizational hierarchies — the authorization layer is genuinely interesting here### **Skills, Knowledge and Expertise** **Our Stack** \|**Java 18\+** **Spring Boot** **MySQL / PostgreSQL** **Kafka** **GCP Pub/Sub** **BigQuery** **Kubernetes** **REST APIs** **CI/CD** **.NET / C\#** **What We’re Looking For** – **Java you understand at the JVM level.