Senior Backend Engineer – WFH

Backend Developer

Position Summary

As a Backend Engineer youll be responsible for crafting usable adaptable reliable and secure software. Youll use the latest lean and agile thinking to solve tough problems and challenge yourself every day. Youll play an important role in driving our digital projects to success.

Primary Responsibilities

• Collaborate with others to invent implement and deploy new systems and improvements to existing systems
• Engineer new systems and changes to existing systems to support new functionality
• Build functionality to ship new experiences and technologies
• Maintain production systems and perform root cause analysis of issues to assist in determining the source of problems
• Active participation in the Scrum process
• Ensure good development testing coverage of unit and integration testing
• Participate in peer design and code reviews
• Participate in architecture design planning
• Proactively collaborate with teammates and communicate with the remote team

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in a technical field or equivalent work or training experience
• Minimum of 5 years working on micro-services / web-based systems (REST)
• Experience working in a product-oriented team-based environment that uses modern digital delivery approaches such as user experience design lean agile DevOps and cloud computing
• Proficiency with Java 17 or above preferably JDK25
• Proficiency with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud frameworks
• Experience with RDS (MySQL)
• Understanding of Docker Kubernetes
• Ability to write Unit tests and follow TDD principles
• Strong understanding of design patterns OOP development methodologies

Nice to have

• Experience with NodeJS express
• Experience with data caching e.g. Redis
• Experience with Elasticsearch or OpenSearch
• Knowledge of AWS services: S3 Secrets SES EC2
• Understanding of messaging systems principles (Kafka Rabbit etc.)
• Experience with Kafka MQTT
• Experience with tools like Swagger

Skills and Competencies

• Expertise in engineering micro-services / web-based systems
• Knowledge of engineering fundamentals and architecture
• Able to think holistically around engineering issues
• A thoughtful adaptive and positive mindset
• Empathetic humble and collaborative mindset
• Proactively communicate clear status updates technical assumptions and early risk indicators
• Effective written and verbal communication skills in English