Senior Software Engineer (Java/Go and GCP/AWS) - Entertainment Industry

ABOUT TRUELOGIC

At Truelogic we are a leading provider of nearshore staff augmentation services headquartered in New York. For over two decades, we’ve been delivering top-tier technology solutions to companies of all sizes, from innovative startups to industry leaders, helping them achieve their digital transformation goals.

Our team of 600+ highly skilled tech professionals, based in Latin America, drives digital disruption by partnering with U.S. companies on their most impactful projects. Whether collaborating with Fortune 500 giants or scaling startups, we deliver results that make a difference.

By applying for this position, you’re taking the first step in joining a dynamic team that values your expertise and aspirations. We aim to align your skills with opportunities that foster exceptional career growth and success while contributing to transformative projects that shape the future.

OUR CLIENT

Our client is a global news organization and technology provider serving the media industry worldwide. The organization delivers trusted journalism while also providing the technology, platforms, and services that power modern digital news experiences at global scale.

JOB SUMMARY

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and own production backend services as part of a major platform modernization initiative. The team is moving core backend capabilities away from a third-party CMS platform and into independently owned services, starting with authentication and identity.

In this role, you will build scalable backend services that support a new headless frontend and other digital products, define APIs, lead service migrations, and ensure strong reliability and observability in production. The ideal candidate has strong Java and Go experience, hands-on experience with AWS and GCP, deep knowledge of authentication and distributed systems, and the autonomy to make sound technical decisions in complex environments. The team also operates with an AI-first development approach, leveraging AI coding assistants and agentic workflows to improve engineering productivity.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design, build, and own production-grade backend services that replace capabilities currently provided by third-party CMS platforms.

• Lead the design and implementation of a new authentication and identity service, including secure session and token management.

• Define and implement APIs that support the headless frontend and other digital products.

• Design solutions using REST, GraphQL, and/or gRPC and distributed systems principles.

• Plan and execute service migrations from vendor or legacy platforms with minimal disruption to existing users and systems.

• Build and operate cloud-native services across AWS and Google Cloud.

• Ensure backend services meet requirements for reliability, scalability, performance, and observability.

• Implement and maintain effective logging, metrics, and distributed tracing for production services.

• Collaborate closely with the Platform Engineering Manager and other engineering stakeholders on technical decisions and implementation strategy.

• Mentor a mid-level engineer and contribute to engineering standards and best practices.

• Leverage and help shape AI-assisted and agentic development workflows across the team's engineering process.

• Continuously evaluate and improve backend architecture, service reliability, and development practices.

QUALIFICATIONS AND JOB REQUIREMENTS

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience, with senior-level ownership of production services.

• Strong professional experience with Java and Go, including production experience with both.

• Hands-on experience with AWS and Google Cloud, including managed services such as Cloud Run, GKE, Pub/Sub, Lambda, RDS, or equivalent technologies.

• Strong understanding of API design and distributed systems, with experience using REST, GraphQL, and/or gRPC.

• Strong experience with authentica