Senior Backend Engineer - Java at Real
Newark, CA
$152,000–$194,000
Jul 1, 2026
Newark, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior backend engineering role focused on building and maintaining Java Spring microservices for a real estate technology platform. Day-to-day work involves designing scalable, event-driven systems, mentoring junior engineers, and collaborating with product teams from requirements through deployment. The role places particular emphasis on integrating AI-assisted development tools into real workflows and critically evaluating AI-generated code before it reaches production.
Senior level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 13,700 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 8,200–20,500
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The JD requires a BA/BS degree but explicitly accepts 'any combination of education and experience which would provide an equivalent background' — treated as no hard degree gate.
Java 17+, Spring Boot 3.x, JPA/Hibernate 6, and SQL relational databases are all listed under the 'What You'll Bring' requirements block and are hard gates. The specific version targets (Java 21, Spring Boot 3.x+) are migration goals, not separate requirements.
NoSQL database experience (DynamoDB) is mentioned in 'What You'll Bring' as contextual knowledge ('you have experience with NoSQL databases') but the primary hard gate is relational databases; DynamoDB appears in the stack narrative and is listed as preferred.
The full tech stack (Postgres, Kafka, DynamoDB, Redis, OpenSearch, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Datadog, ArgoCD, TeamCity) appears under an 'Our Tech Stack' narrative section — none of these are individually gated in the requirements block, so all are marked preferred.
AI tooling (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, MCP integrations) appears under a separate 'AI-Assisted Development' section framed as context and desirable experience rather than a hard gate, so it is marked preferred. Claude Code is named first with alternatives listed.
The role requires working Eastern (EST) time zone hours regardless of location; candidates must be US-based.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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