Senior Software Engineer

Overview

As a Senior Software Engineer you will design build and operate full-stack features across a Java/Spring Boot microservices backend and a React/TypeScript frontend. You will own end-to-end delivery from database schema and API design through UI implementation and collaborate with product QA and other engineering teams to ship reliable production-grade software. This role combines hands-on technical depth with the leadership to mentor junior engineers raise the engineering bar and drive sound architectural decisions across the stack.

Role Description

• Design develop and maintain features across the full stack Java/Spring Boot microservices and React/TypeScript frontend

• Own end-to-end delivery of features from database schema through API to UI

• Build and optimize RESTful APIs WebSocket real-time communication and inter-service messaging via RabbitMQ

• Write and maintain database migrations optimize PostgreSQL queries and manage Redis caching strategies

• Collaborate with product and QA to define requirements estimate effort and deliver iterative improvements

• Participate in code reviews architectural discussions and incident response

• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines observability and deployment processes

Required Skills

Backend (Primary)

• 5 years of professional experience with Java (Java 17 ideally Java 21)

• Strong proficiency with Spring Boot 3.x Spring Security and Spring Cloud

• Experience building and maintaining microservices architectures service decomposition API gateway patterns inter-service communication

• Solid understanding of PostgreSQL schema design indexing query optimization migrations (Flyway or Liquibase)

• Hands-on experience with message brokers (RabbitMQ Kafka or similar) for event-driven architectures

• Experience with Redis for caching session management or pub/sub patterns

• Familiarity with OIDC/OAuth2 authentication and RBAC authorization models

• Strong unit and integration testing practices JUnit 5 Mockito Testcontainers

Frontend

• 3 years of professional experience with React (v16) and TypeScript

• Comfortable with React Context API custom hooks and component composition patterns

• Experience consuming RESTful APIs and working with WebSocket/STOMP for real-time UIs

• Understanding of responsive design and mobile-first development

• Familiarity with build tools like Vite or Webpack

General

• Strong grasp of REST API design principles and experience with OpenAPI/Swagger documentation

• Experience with Git workflows (feature branches pull requests code reviews)

• Ability to read and write SQL comfortably not just ORM queries

• Strong debugging profiling and troubleshooting skills across the stack

• Clear written and verbal communication in English

Required Experience and Qualifications

• Bachelors degree or equivalent combination of education and directly related experience.

• 5 years of professional experience in full-stack software design and development

• Proven track record of delivering production-grade microservices and modern web applications

• Experience working in agile cross-functional teams across global time zones

Desired Skills and Experience

• Experience with Docker and Docker Compose for local development and production

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Bitbucket Pipelines Jenkins GitHub Actions)

• Familiarity with observability stacks Grafana Loki Prometheus or similar

• Experience with WebSocket horizontal scaling (Redis Streams Redis Pub/Sub)

• Experience with Playwright or Cypress for E2E testing

• Exposure to k6 or JMeter for load/performance testing

• Experience with OWASP security scanning or SonarQube code quality tools

• Knowledge of Change Data Capture (CDC) patterns or data replication pipelines

• Working with AI coding assistants like Cursor or Claude Code