Senior Backend Engineer

Develocity is a firstofitskind product built for large software teams. It provides comprehensive observability build and test acceleration technologies and rapid troubleshooting features for Apache Maven Android Bazel sbt npm Python and Gradle Build Tool. Develocity comprises several facets including largevolume data ingestion and processing complex data analysis and visualization and distributed caching and systems.

Top companies like Netflix LinkedIn ASML Airbnb Microsoft Nasdaq and SAP use Develocity to deliver critical software faster at scale. We regularly collaborate with these and other customers to make continuous improvements to our products.We also partner with the Apache Software Foundation the Micronaut Foundation and other OSS projectsincluding Spring Quarkus Kotlin Compiler JUnit AndroidX and moreto bring Develocitys benefits to the OSS Community.

Who You Are

Were seeking a Senior Backend Engineer with a demonstrated ability to efficiently deliver and maintain robust and useful softwarebased solutions as part of a collaborative team. Our ideal candidate has a successful record of delivering testable evolvable and scalable backend architectures to production. While not necessarily build experts they do exhibit a deep understanding and interest in the automation domain and in developer productivity. They thrive on challenging development and integration problems understand the nuances of performance and memory optimization possess and can capably articulate strong opinions and feel comfortable collaborating with a distributed team.

Responsibilities

• Design implement test deliver and maintain Develocity features
• Solve technical problems that have large scope complexity and business impact
• Effectively manage individual project priorities deadlines and deliverables
• Assist clients both during trials and in production
• Contribute to process changes that improve the teams velocity and efficiency
• Participate in Develocity releases in collaboration with the entire engineering team

Minimum Qualifications

• 7 years of professional software development experience
• Indepth experience with Java and the JVM
• Experience leading complex features endtoend and crossteam
• Proficient communicator in English both verbal and written
• Selfmotivated and selfmanaging with excellent organizational skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing and building faulttolerant distributed systems
• Experience building and scaling highlyavailable systems
• Experience working with AWS Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience automating the software build and delivery process
• Experience working on developer tools
• Systematic problemsolving approach coupled with effective communication skills
• Interest and ability to learn new software development skills and techniques

What We Offer

• Opportunity to work on a widelyused product with a clear vision for the future
• Contribute to leading solutions in the new industry of Developer Productivity Engineering
• Close customer interaction with engineers from leading tech organizations
• An automationfocused testdriven engineering culture
• Close collaboration with experienced and dedicated peer engineers
• Opportunities for growth in technical and leadership responsibilities
• Inperson meetings such as our annual company offsite and team meetings
• Work from home in a remotefirst environment
• Competitive salaries and equity grants

Benefits & Perks

• Learning & development: We offer a $1000 annual learning and development stipend and a monthly meetingfree day dedicated to learning.
• Home office stipend: We offer a $1500 home office stipend to make sure youre comfortably equipped to work remotely.
• Volunteer day: We offer up to 8 hours of paid time each year for team members to give back to their local communities.
• Gradle World Meeting: We gather once a year for a week of inperson meetings and teambuilding events (at a very cool global destination venue).
• International benefits: We provide benefits that are tailored to your country of work.
• Competitive salary / Stock options: We offer competitive salaries and company stock option plans to all team members.

Location

• Remote Europefriendly timezone with working conditions allowing seamless collaboration with your colleagues through email chat and video conferencing

How to Apply

The following is required with your application:

• Attach your Resume/CV and answer the required fields below
• Create a Build Scan for any OSS project and tag it with backendengineer

Next Steps

After applying familiarize yourself with the Develocity hiring process to understand the next steps.

Who We Are

Were a team of committed and skilled software engineers product designers sales professionals and marketing experts. Were passionate about developer productivity and we take pride in delivering products that some of the worlds leading software organizations rely on daily.

Our team is globally distributed but deeply connected. We value our interpersonal relationships as much as we value our achievements. Were a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other and improve together and we welcome people of different backgrounds experiences abilities and perspectives.

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