IFS · 2 months ago
Senior Backend Software Engineer, Java | Kafka - TheLoops
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$175K/yr - $200K/yr
5+ years expTheLoops, an IFS company, is the first enterprise-grade AI Agent platform built for mission-critical applications and industries. The role of Senior Backend Software Engineer involves designing and building the backbone of real-time, distributed AI platforms to drive increased efficiency and operational scale across multiple large industry segments.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Asset ManagementEnterprise Resource Planning (ERP)Enterprise SoftwareInformation TechnologySoftware
Responsibilities
Design and implement scalable, distributed platform components using Java, Kafka, Akka (Typed), gRPC, or similar technologies
Build and optimize data pipelines capable of handling high-throughput events with low latency and high reliability
Lead efforts in agentic scaling—dynamically spawning, routing, and managing intelligent agent workloads
Develop resilient systems that self-heal, auto-scale, and degrade gracefully under pressure
Define and implement metrics, tracing, and observability for end-to-end system behavior and performance
Collaborate closely with infrastructure, SRE, and product teams to align platform scalability with growth and reliability goals
Investigate and resolve performance bottlenecks and propose long-term architectural improvements
Participate in on-call rotations, architecture reviews, and technical design sessions
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience building distributed systems in production
Strong expertise with Kafka (topics, partitions, consumers, tuning, schema registry, stream processing) or similar messaging/event systems
Experience building highly concurrent, event-driven, or distributed systems using frameworks like Akka or Erlang
Solid Java programming skills; experience with concurrency and modern Java frameworks
Understanding of agentic workloads and dynamic system orchestration (microservices representing intelligent agents)
Experience designing scalable APIs, message protocols (Protobuf, Avro), and event-driven architectures
Familiarity with cloud-native environments (Kubernetes, service mesh, container orchestration)
Preferred
Experience with serverless or function-as-a-service scaling models
Contributions to open-source distributed systems projects
Exposure to AI/ML-driven orchestration or agentic frameworks
Familiarity with observability tooling: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Kafka monitoring, etc
Benefits
Flexible paid time off, including sick and holiday
Medical, dental, & vision insurance
401K with Company contribution
Flexible spending accounts
Life insurance and disability benefits
Tuition assistance
Community involvement and volunteering events
Company
IFS
IFS develops and delivers enterprise software solutions such as ERP, EAM, Service Management and Industrial AI It is a sub-organization of IFS.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$3.42BKey Investors
HgTA Associates
2025-04-09Secondary Market
2022-03-30Secondary Market
2020-07-14Secondary Market· $3.42B
Leadership Team
Mark Moffat
Chief Executive Officer
Matthias Heiden
Chief Financial Officer
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