Senior Backend Engineer — Founding Team (Java / Spring Boot / GCP) — Freelance via Shakers

We are partnering with a fast-moving company at the intersection of healthcare and AI to hire a Senior Backend Engineer as a founding team member of their microservices platform on GCP.

This is not a traditional corporate role. You will own services end-to-end, take part in critical system design decisions, and operate inside a fully AI-driven development workflow (planning → generation → review → refinement).

What you will do

• Design, build and operate scalable backend services with Java + Spring Boot in a microservices architecture using Kafka and Redis.
• Build and evolve APIs, data models and workflows; deploy on GCP with Kubernetes.
• Guide an AI-powered development process: structured planning, generating, reviewing and refining AI-produced code.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions.
• Take real owners...