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Inspire · 4 hours ago

Staff Engineer-Back-End

Atlanta, GA

Full-time

Onsite

Lead/Staff

10+ years exp

Inspire is a multi-brand restaurant company with a portfolio that includes over 33,000 restaurants worldwide. They are seeking a Staff Engineer to join their Digital Engineering team, focusing on backend engineering, e-commerce platforms, and cloud-native solutions to drive the technical direction of their digital ecosystem.

Food and BeverageFood ProcessingRestaurants

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Architect and evolve Java and Node.js-based event-driven microservices on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), ensuring scalability, resiliency, and observability

Apply domain-driven design (DDD) principles to model core domain capabilities with clean service boundaries

Design and implement integration patterns (synchronous APIs, async messaging, event streams, pub/sub) across internal and external systems

Abstract external system interfaces (POS, payments, loyalty, fulfillment, etc.) from our domain services to ensure maintainability and vendor flexibility

Drive adoption of blue/green and canary deployment strategies for zero-downtime releases

Architect multi-region deployments with active-active or active-passive failover for global resiliency

Define and optimize edge caching strategies using Cloudflare (preferred) or other modern CDNs/reverse proxies

Lead adoption of customer identity management solutions, leveraging Auth0 and/or Azure AD B2C with best practices for security and compliance

Apply GenAI capabilities (LLMs, embeddings, prompt orchestration) to backend services, including customer personalization, search, knowledge retrieval, and operations automation

Provide hands-on technical leadership for CI/CD automation using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions

Establish standards for integration automation testing across Java and Node.js microservices and APIs, with automated gates in pipelines

Champion automation-first practices: infrastructure as code (Terraform/Bicep), automated testing, performance validation, and observability

Decompose complex initiatives into actionable deliverables across geo-distributed agile teams

Partner with architects, engineering managers, and product leaders to align on technical direction, roadmap, and release strategies

Facilitate DDD workshops, design reviews, and integration architecture sessions across teams

Influence technical decision-making across geo-distributed agile teams, ensuring both velocity and platform health

Partner with product and data teams to identify GenAI use cases and integrate them into core digital services

Mentor engineers in DDD, integration patterns, Kubernetes, Istio, KEDA, automation best practices, and microservice design in Java and Node.js

Promote a culture of quality-first, automation-first engineering

Enable teams to design resilient services that abstract vendor dependencies and scale globally

Qualification

Java (Spring Boot)Node.js microservicesAzure Cloud ServicesKubernetes (AKS)Domain-driven design (DDD)Generative AI servicesCI/CD automationInfrastructure as CodeIntegration patternsAgile environmentsMentorshipCollaboration

Required

4 Year Degree and/or Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related fields

10 plus years in backend software engineering

3 plus years in a Staff/Principal/Lead Engineer role

Proven track record delivering enterprise-scale e-commerce platforms with high availability and resiliency

Strong, hands-on expertise in Java (Spring Boot) and Node.js microservices

Deep expertise in Azure Cloud Services: AKS, Event Hubs, Service Bus, Cosmos DB, App Gateway, Front Door, and related services

Hands-on production experience with Kubernetes (AKS) for container orchestration

Istio for service mesh traffic management, observability, and mTLS

KEDA for event-driven autoscaling

Strong experience in Domain-driven design (DDD)

Integration patterns for APIs, messaging, and events

Abstracting external system interfaces from core domain capabilities

Proven expertise architecting and operating multi-region deployments with failover, disaster recovery, and global resiliency

Applied experience with Generative AI services (Azure OpenAI, OpenAI APIs, or similar) — designing secure, scalable backend integrations with LLMs

Strong background in blue/green and canary release strategies for cloud-native systems

Experience with automation-first platforms, including CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions)

Integration automation testing

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Bicep)

Experience working in agile environments with geo-distributed teams

Deep knowledge of customer identity management, with preference for Auth0 or Azure AD B2C

Preferred

Define and optimize edge caching strategies using Cloudflare (preferred) or other modern CDNs/reverse proxies

Company

Inspire

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Inspire Brands is a multi-brand restaurant company & owner. It is a sub-organization of Roark Capital Group.

Founded in 2018

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

10001+ employees

https://inspirebrands.com

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