Software Backend Engineer- Hybrid at Match Made Tech
Irvine, CA
$75–$95/hrfrom the description
Jul 28, 2026
Irvine, CA
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A contract-to-hire backend engineering role on a greenfield AI application suite, based in Irvine, CA (Mon–Thu onsite, Fri remote). The engineer will take end-to-end ownership of one or more Java-based microservices applications — from architecture and design through implementation and testing — on a new platform intended to reshape core business operations. Suits an experienced Java engineer comfortable leading technical design discussions and working in an Agile team.
Senior level · Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA · Bachelor's required · Contract
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 390 people in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 290–500
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 $164,459 (middle half $130,334–$195,752). 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 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The posting lists 'Java/J2EE, Spring, NodeJS/Typescript, and/or Python' together under Required Qualifications with an 'and/or' connector, suggesting Java and Spring are the core hard gates while Node.js/TypeScript and Python are partially interchangeable additions; all are captured as required given the section placement.
AWS is listed as required with specific services called out (S3, EC2, Cognito, SQS/SNS, CloudWatch); the individual service names are not emitted as separate skills since AWS is the canonical platform gate.
The degree requirement states 'BS in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Data Science' as part of the required qualifications — treated as a hard Bachelors gate.
PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQL Server are listed together as examples of required database experience; all three are captured as required since they appear in the Required Qualifications section.
Maven and NPM are listed together as examples of dependency frameworks under Required Qualifications; emitted as a single skill with NPM as an alternative.
Streaming/messaging technologies (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, SNS) and NoSQL databases (Redis, ElastiCache, MongoDB) appear under Preferred Qualifications.
This is a contract-to-hire engagement; sponsorship is explicitly not available.
Posting is for a contract engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
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