Java Backend Developer WFH Remore-Work (5 Years Exp Needed At least)

We are looking to hire experienced Java Backend Developers with strong experience. This is for an ongoing full time work for someone with at least 5 years of professional work experience and with great experience working with backend search engines and springboot. This is a completle work from home / remote job. 
 

What Youll Own
Backend Engineering
        Design build and maintain backend services using Java 20 and Spring Boot
        Develop clean secure versioned REST APIs for web mobile admin partner and AI systems
        Review and improve Spring Boot application structure dependency versions embedded Tomcat configuration startup behaviour memory usage and runtime performance
        Improve service structure startup behaviour configuration and deployment readiness
        Refactor weak or unstable backend areas without breaking existing functionality
        Review and improve backend code quality error handling validation and performance
Platform Stability
        Investigate production issues across services APIs databases queues and cloud infrastructure
        Investigate Spring/Tomcat-level issues such as slow startup failed bean initialisation blocked request threads timeout misconfiguration memory pressure and unhealthy application states
        Improve application startup service health checks logging retries timeout handling and failure recovery
        Identify unstable services duplicated logic poor configurations and risky dependencies
        Create clear root-cause analysis for recurring backend failures
        Help define backend release standards and deployment readiness checks
Data Search & Matching
        Work with MongoDB PostgreSQL/MySQL Redis and Elasticsearch
        Optimise queries indexes schema design and data access patterns
        Support course matching profile enrichment search recommendation and application workflows
        Improve backend data consistency between APIs databases search indexes and AI outputs
Cloud & Infrastructure
        Work confidently with AWS-backed backend environments including services such as EKS/ECS EC2 Lambda RDS S3 IAM CloudWatch and SQS/SNS in collaboration with DevOps/Cloud engineers
        Support containerised deployments using Docker and Kubernetes
        Review backend infrastructure for cost security reliability and scalability
        Help reduce unnecessary cloud costs caused by inefficient services oversized resources or poor runtime behaviour
        Partner with DevOps/Cloud engineers to improve deployment pipelines and runtime environments
Messaging & Integrations
        Work with Kafka RabbitMQ or AWS SQS/SNS
        Audit existing message/event flows and identify what is used unused broken or risky
        Build reliable asynchronous workflows for notifications AI processing applications search updates and partner integrations
        Integrate third-party services such as payment gateways email/SMS providers CRMs AI/ML APIs and institution partner systems
Security & Access
        Build secure backend services using Spring Security OAuth2 JWT SSO and role-based access control
        Work with identity systems such as Keycloak or similar
        Improve API security permission checks secrets management and environment variable hygiene
        Identify risky public endpoints exposed credentials weak service-to-service access and insecure configurations
        Apply secure coding practices across backend services
Observability & Monitoring
        Improve backend logging metrics alerts tracing and health dashboards
        Work with tools such as CloudWatch ELK Grafana Prometheus New Relic Datadog Rollbar or similar
        Make it easier to detect user-impacting failures such as login issues API failures slow responses and broken workflows
        Help define what healthy backend means for Yuzee
Leadership & Mentoring
        Review pull requests and raise engineering quality across the team
        Mentor junior and mid-level developers while maintaining delivery momentum
        Break large technical problems into clear shippable milestones
        Write technical documentation that explains systems decisions risks and fixes
        Push back on poor technical decisions with evidence and better alternatives

Must-Have Skills
        5 years backend engineering experience with strong Java experience
        4 years hands-on Spring Boot experience
        Strong experience with:
        Java 17 / 21
        Spring Boot
        Spring Data
        Spring Security
        REST API design
        Microservices
        Docker
        CI/CD
        Git workflows and code reviews
        Strong understanding of the Spring ecosystem including Spring Boot Spring MVC Spring Security Spring Data Spring configuration profiles dependency management and application lifecycle
        Practical understanding of embedded servlet containers such as Tomcat including request handling thread pools connection limits timeouts and production tuning
        Experience using Spring Boot Actuator or similar tools for health checks metrics readiness/liveness checks and production diagnostics
        Strong database experience with at least one relational database:
        PostgreSQL
        MySQL
        RDS
        Production experience with cloud platforms preferably AWS
        Strong understanding of:
        Authentication and authorisation
        OAuth2
        JWT
        SSO
        Role-based access control
        Solid testing experience:
        JUnit 5
        Mockito
        Integration testing
        API testing
        Strong database optimisation ability schema design indexing query tuning
        Strong debugging and root-cause analysis ability
        Ability to document backend systems technical risks architecture decisions production incidents and recommended fixes clearly
        Strong written English for async collaboration

Salary on Offer: PKR-  per year

Qualifications :

Strong Nice-to-Have Skills
        NoSQL or search experience with MongoDB Redis or Elasticsearch
        Experience with queues or event-driven systems (Kafka RabbitMQ AWS SQS/SNS)
        Kubernetes / EKS production experience
        AWS Lambda and serverless backend experience
        Keycloak experience
        Elasticsearch tuning for search and matching workloads
        AI/ML API integration experience especially Gemini/OpenAI-style APIs
        Vector search or embedding-based matching experience
        Experience with multi-tenant SaaS platforms
        Experience with EdTech recruitment marketplace or application-management systems
        Experience with monitoring and observability tools
        Experience improving legacy backend systems
        Experience reducing AWS cost without weakening reliability
        Experience preparing systems for investor audit or enterprise-readiness review

Qualifications section to add
Education
        Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Information Technology or a related technical field from a recognised university
        Masters degree ( / MS / MCA) in a relevant field is a plus but not required
        Equivalent practical experience will be considered for candidates with a strong production track record

Additional Information :

Soft Skills
        Strong ownership mindset
        Calm under production pressure
        Able to explain technical problems clearly to non-technical leadership
        Comfortable working across Australia Malaysia and India time zones
        Able to work independently without needing constant direction
        Strong judgement on when to refactor when to stabilise and when to ship
        Willing to document systems properly
        Able to mentor junior and mid-level developers while maintaining delivery momentum
        Evidence-based decision-making

Benefits

• Completely remote or work from home (Very good if you also want to spend more time with family)
• Friendly and understanding colleagues
• Competitive salaries
• You get to work in an agile work environment
• You get to show your leadership skills
• International working exposure
• Company shares can be offered based on how successful with our products launch
• Company sponsored online classes or tech talks
• Bonuses if you perform beyond expectation
• Promotions towards better job roles possible after a certain period of time

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time