[Remote] Backend / Platform Developer Consultant (Temporal & Kubernetes)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Bitovi partners with companies to build outcome-focused applications and platforms through a collaborative, validation-driven approach. The Backend / Platform Developer Consultant will design and operate durable distributed systems using Java, Temporal, Kafka, Kubernetes, and AWS; lead modernization and migration efforts; consult with clients; and help build reliable platform infrastructure and delivery processes.

Responsibilities

• Build durable systems. Design and implement Java services, Temporal workflows, and Kafka-based event pipelines, and help clients adopt durable execution and event streaming the right way — from first workflow to production scale
• Lead modernization efforts. Plan and execute large-scale modernization efforts — moving workflows, services, and data between platforms, clusters, and clouds — with safety, observability, and minimal disruption as first-class requirements
• Own the platform. Build and operate Kubernetes-native infrastructure and CI/CD on AWS so application teams can ship safely and quickly. Treat reliability, observability, and repeatability as part of the deliverable, not an afterthought
• Consult and manage. Consult with clients to build outcome-driven applications and platforms, guiding them through the process, identifying potential problems and unknowns, and tackling challenges
• Travel. This is a remote, full-time position that requires the ability to travel. We travel an average of 3–5 days every quarter, and we'll always do our best to work with your schedule
• Teach. We'll discuss opportunities for you to present at conferences, attend and give training, plan and run meetups or local groups, and create various kinds of content in your expertise

Skills

• At this time, we are only considering candidates located in and authorized to work in the United States
• You're experienced building and running applications at the enterprise level, and you're comfortable owning both the code and the infrastructure it runs on
• You think like a systems engineer — reasoning about the whole platform, from JVM services and event streams to the clusters and cloud infrastructure underneath them
• You thrive when given opportunities to deliver real-world platforms as an integral team member, including large-scale migrations, and you have the expertise to interface and communicate confidently with stakeholders
• Strong working knowledge of Java and the JVM ecosystem (Spring Boot or similar)
• Hands-on experience with a durable execution / workflow engine — Temporal preferred (Apache Airflow, Prefect, or similar also relevant) — including modeling workflows and activities, handling retries and timeouts, and reasoning about idempotency and failure modes
• Experience designing and operating Kafka-based event streaming systems: topic and partition design, consumer groups, schema management, and reasoning about ordering, delivery guarantees, and consumer lag
• Experience designing and building GraphQL APIs — schema design, resolvers, and performance concerns (N+1, caching, pagination)
• Deep, hands-on AWS experience: architecting, deploying, and operating production systems (EKS, networking, IAM, messaging, and data services)
• Solid Kubernetes experience: deploying, operating, and debugging production workloads
• A systems engineering mindset: understanding of complex scaling issues, concurrency, backpressure, caching strategies, and failure modes across distributed systems
• Experience planning and executing migrations — application replatforming, workflow engine migrations, data/schema migrations, or moving workloads between environments with minimal downtime
• A thorough understanding of CI/CD pipelines and GitOps-style delivery
• Experience with observability in practice — logging, metrics, and tracing (OpenTelemetry a plus)
• Experience building modern microservice-based or serverless applications
• Database schema design and development expertise
• Running Temporal in production — self-hosted on Kubernetes and/or Temporal Cloud
• Workflow versioning and patching, safe deployments, and long-running workflow migrations
• Worker deployment and tuning (pollers, task queues, concurrency/slot configuration)
• Namespace management, mTLS (SPIFFE/SPIRE or private CA), and capacity/scaling concerns (e.g. APS/TRU on Temporal Cloud
• Operating Kafka in production (MSK, Confluent, or self-managed on Kubernetes)
• Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, and schema registry workflows (Avro/Protobuf)
• Migrating between clusters or providers, and integrating Kafka with downstream analytical stores
• Experience with different techniques for processing large datasets, such as Lambda and Kappa architectures
• Building or operating an internal developer platform (IDP) — self-service, paved-path infrastructure for application teams
• GitOps with ArgoCD (or Flux) and a low- or zero-manual-apply delivery model
• Infrastructure as code: Terraform/OpenTofu, and provisioning AWS resources via Crossplane, ACK, or similar
• Writing Kubernetes controllers/operators (controller-runtime, kubebuilder) and working with CRDs
• Helm chart authoring and distribution (including OCI/registry-based)
• Secrets management (External Secrets Operator, etc.), autoscaling (Karpenter, KEDA), and service mesh concepts (Istio, SPIFFE/SPIRE)
• EKS or comparable managed Kubernetes at scale
• Interest in working across multiple backend languages
• Additional queueing and messaging technologies (AWS SQS/SNS, RabbitMQ)
• API design across paradigms (GraphQL, REST, gRPC)
• AuthN/AuthZ and related technologies (sessions, API tokens, JWTs)
• Automated testing across the stack (unit, integration, performance/benchmarking)
• Experience with additional backend languages (Go, Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, C#, etc.) is a plus
• Temporal preferred
• Federation experience a plus
• OpenTelemetry a plus

Benefits

• Annual bonus opportunity
• Completely remote work with flexible hours
• 401(k) matching
• 4 weeks of paid time off in addition to 8 paid holidays
• Health, dental, and vision insurance offerings
• Paid maternity and paternity leave
• STD, LTD, and Life Insurance coverage

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