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Senior Backend Software Engineer - Java/Kotlin

Starbridge
New York, NY Full Time
POSTED ON 4/18/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/17/2025

At Starbridge, we are building the future of public sector go-to-market. Our GTM intelligence platform helps businesses grow public sector revenue. By identifying early buying signals, building strategic outbound capabilities, and automating manual processes like proposal writing, our partners win more contracts & establish a competitive edge.

About the role

We are looking for a generalist senior backend engineer with experience in JVM (and preferably Kotlin) to join our early team to build our product from zero to one. The role is based in downtown Manhattan, New York City. Your role will include projects working with other team members such as scraping, processing & deriving insights from millions of documents, contributing to a unique RAG based LLM writing application & integrating enterprise systems. And generally hustling in an early-stage tight knit team!!! You might be a fit if you :

  • Are a senior developer with Enterprise B2B SaaS experience or Big data processing experience in the JVM ecosystem and ideally Kotlin.
  • Hustle and are excited to work long-hours in-person in the office.
  • Are excited to roll up your sleeves and work in all parts of the backend and have experience working in small teams & startups. Ideally have experience working in a fast-growing startup.
  • Have experience with some of the following (not required) :

Large Scale Web Scraping & Parsing

  • Natural Language Generation
  • Enterprise API integrations
  • Prompt Engineering
  • Experience with the following stack :
  • Kotlin (BE)

  • Python (specific libs)
  • Google Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL
  • Firebase
  • Interview Process

    After submitting your application, the team reviews your CV and statement of exceptional work. If your application passes this stage, you will be invited to a 30-minute interview ("phone interview") during which a member of our team will ask some basic questions and you will have the chance for questions as well. If you clear the initial phone interview, you will enter the main process, which consists of three interviews :

  • System design exercise hands-on.
  • Live coding in Java / Kotlin
  • Product thinking past-work presentation : Present your past exceptional work to a small audience product questions.
  • Our goal is to finish the process within one week. We don't rely on recruiters for assessments. Every application is reviewed by a member of our technical team. All interviews will be conducted via Zoom.

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