SeniorSoftwareEngineer,Backend(Java/Spring)

I'm Ian Anderson https://linkedin.com/in/itwanderson, Engineering Manager for the Compliance, Recruiting, and Camps team at Teamworks. Our products power some of the most complex and compliance-sensitive workflows in collegiate athletics, and right now we're at a pivotal moment. We're moving from a monolithic, reactive codebase toward a stable, service-oriented architecture with a data layer that the entire Teamworks platform, including Ask Teamworks, can rely on. To get there, I need someone who's genuinely energized by hard technical problems and brings the patience and rigor to solve them the right way. THE ROLE - Own feature delivery across Compliance, Recruiting, and Camps, breaking complex work into small, shippable increments and seeing them through from design to production - Design and build internal APIs and data access layers for performant, reliable cross-product data consumption, including the API versioning and service layer work needed to decompose the monolith into a Citadel-style architecture - Diagnose and resolve critical performance issues in the data import pipeline through measurement, testing, and targeted fixes - Provide mentorship and technical direction to junior engineers as a natural part of how you work, not as a side responsibility - Drive code quality through MR reviews, testing practices, and AI-assisted development methods - Participate in on-call rotation and incident response WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR WHAT YOU MUST BRING - 6+ years of senior-level Java and Spring/Spring Boot experience - Proven experience building internal APIs on top of relational databases, with strong query optimization and schema design skills - Experience working across monolithic and service-oriented architectures, with a track record of decomposing monolithic applications into a service-oriented structure - Experience building or evolving a data access layer that serves multiple internal consumers across a platform - Proficiency with agentic coding tools and AI-a