Senior Java Backend Engineer

Job Title: Senior Java Backend EngineerLocation: Los Angeles, CA; Monterey Park, CA; Fort Lauderdale, FL; Dallas, TX; or New York, NY.The ideal candidate should have strong experience with Spring Boot, gRPC and Protocol Buffers, and professional experience designing or building REST APIs. A key requirement is experience exposing REST endpoints that connect to backend gRPC services using transcoding, gRPC-Gateway, or custom mapping layers.Key Skills5+ years of Java development experience in production environmentsStrong Spring Boot experienceHands-on experience building gRPC services using protobufExperience designing/building REST APIsFamiliarity with OpenAPI / SwaggerREST-to-gRPC integration experienceExperience with OAuth2 / JWT authenticationStrong data/domain modeling experience, including protobuf messages, JSON Schema, or entity modelingExposure to Cube (cube.dev), dbt, or semantic/analytics layers is a plusTerraform / Infrastructure-as-Code experience is a nice to have