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Backend Developer Software Engineer Jobs in Riverside, CA

GOODCONNEX INC

Senior Backend Software Engineer

Irvine, CA · On-site

$131K - $173K/yr

We're looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to co-own our backend architecture and ensure the system is scalable, reliable, and production-ready. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys ...

GOODCONNEX INC

Senior Backend Software Engineer

Irvine, CA

$131K - $173K/yr

We're looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to co-own our backend architecture and ensure the system is scalable, reliable, and production-ready. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys ...

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AI Backend Engineer II

Irvine, CA · On-site

As an AI Backend Engineer II, you will build the production software systems, services, and infrastructure that power machine learning solutions at scale. You will focus on deploying, integrating ...

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AI Backend Engineer II

Irvine, CA · On-site

As an AI Backend Engineer II, you will build the production software systems, services, and infrastructure that power machine learning solutions at scale. You will focus on deploying, integrating ...

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Senior Backend Software Engineer

Irvine, CA • On-site

GOODCONNEX INC
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Job description

About the Role

We’re building a mobile-first information platform and are approaching production launch. We’re looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to co-own our backend architecture and ensure the system is scalable, reliable, and production-ready.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys designing systems and running them in the real world — handling performance bottlenecks, debugging production issues, and improving reliability as usage grows.

You’ll work closely with a small team and have meaningful influence over architecture, infrastructure decisions, and engineering practices.

What You’ll Do

System Design & Scalability

  • Review and improve backend system architecture for scale and reliability
  • Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across services, databases, and caches
  • Design data models and APIs that scale as traffic and usage grow
  • Improve caching strategies and consistency patterns

Database & Performance

  • Optimize MySQL schemas, queries, and indexing strategies
  • Analyze slow queries and improve transaction performance
  • Plan for read scaling (replicas, partitioning strategies, etc.)

Production Reliability & Operations

  • Improve observability: logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and alerts
  • Debug and resolve production issues, including intermittent and edge-case failures
  • Design systems with resilience in mind (timeouts, retries, circuit breakers)
  • Participate in on-call and incident response as needed

Release Safety & Engineering Discipline

  • Improve deployment safety (blue-green, canary, rollback strategies)
  • Design safe database migration and backward-compatible changes
  • Contribute to engineering best practices and post-incident improvements

Our Tech Stack

  • Backend: Java, Spring Boot
  • Infrastructure: AWS ECS (Fargate), ALB, CloudWatch
  • Database: MySQL (RDS)
  • Caching: AWS ElastiCache (Redis)
  • Client: React Native (mobile)
  • CI/CD: GitHub Actions

Experience with similar stacks is welcome; deep backend and system design fundamentals matter most.

What We’re Looking For

Required

  • 5+ years of backend engineering experience
  • Strong system design and distributed systems fundamentals
  • Experience building and operating production backend services
  • Solid understanding of relational databases and query optimization
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
  • Ability to debug complex issues under real-world constraints
  • Fluent spoken Mandarin required; ability to participate in technical discussions and collaborate with Mandarin-speaking stakeholders.

Strong Plus

  • Experience with Spring Boot in high-traffic systems
  • Hands-on experience with MySQL performance tuning
  • Experience with caching systems
  • Familiarity with observability tools (metrics, tracing, logging)
  • Startup or small-team experience with high ownership

Company Description

GoodConnex is decentralized digital bulletin board helps you discover, offer, and exchange local services—without commissions, algorithms, or corporate middlemen getting in the way.