Backend Software Engineer at ClearlyRated
Portland, OR
$90,000from the description
Jul 13, 2026
Portland, OR
Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A backend engineering role focused on building and evolving a service-oriented platform for survey automation and relationship intelligence, used by enterprise professional services clients. Day-to-day work spans API and data model design, event-driven microservices on GCP, a webhook-triggered survey automation engine, and authorization systems for complex organizational hierarchies. The role suits engineers with strong Java and SQL fundamentals who think carefully about distributed system failure modes.
Mid level · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 33,200 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 19,900–49,800
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
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). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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 (9)
The job title carries no seniority level ('Backend Software Engineer'), so the title states no level. The requirements emphasise fundamentals and systems thinking but state no minimum years of experience and explicitly say 'we hire on ability, not tenure', supporting a Mid-level pool sizing.
The posting is listed as Portland, Oregon but explicitly states 'Remote, West Coast Only' (Pacific Time Zone). Per the caller's instruction, remote=true and no metro is inferred.
Java and Spring Boot are listed under a 'What We're Looking For' requirements block with firm language ('you understand at the JVM level', 'Spring Boot / Spring ecosystem depth') and are treated as hard gates. SQL and API design instincts are similarly gated with firm language in the same block.
MySQL/PostgreSQL appear together in the stack narrative ('Our Stack') rather than a requirements section; emitted as a single preferred skill with PostgreSQL as an alternative.
GCP Pub/Sub, Kafka, BigQuery, Kubernetes, .NET/C#, and CI/CD all appear either in the 'Our Stack' narrative or under the explicit 'Bonus Points' section and are therefore preferred, not required.
GCP is listed both as a stack technology and under Bonus Points (with sub-services Pub/Sub, Dataflow, BigQuery, Vertex AI); emitted as a separate preferred skill alongside GCP Pub/Sub since the sub-service is a distinct, separately-marketed tool.
The compensation is stated as a single fixed figure ($90,000/year), so min and max are set to the same value.
No degree requirement is stated; the posting explicitly welcomes candidates from universities, bootcamps, open-source, or self-taught backgrounds.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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