Java Backend Architect

Atradius

The Atradius Group provides trade credit insurance surety and collections services worldwide and has a presence through 160 offices in 52 countries. The products offered by Atradius protect companies around the world against the default risks associated with selling goods and services on credit.

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Atradius IT Services (ITS) is part of the Atradius Group and is responsible for all worldwide ICT services for Atradius. ITS is a global operation with staff in 12 countries driving the digital transformation and a wide range of services projects vendors and outsourcing.

Within Atradius ITS the Shared Components area is responsible for designing developing and maintaining reusable components that serve as the foundation for various Atradius applications and services. Its primary objective is to ensure integration consistency and efficiency of common elements while promoting standardization and enabling scalability across the organization. Furthermore Shared Components fosters collaboration between teams provides technical support and guarantees that all components meet the required standards for quality security and alignment with business objectives.

The Shared Components team at Atradius plays a key role in providing reusable technical capabilities that support the development of consistent secure and scalable business applications across the organization. The team focuses on designing building and maintaining common components integration assets and backend services that enable delivery teams to accelerate implementation while following enterprise standards. By promoting reuse technical alignment and collaboration across IT areas Shared Components helps improve efficiency reduce duplication and ensure that solutions are robust maintainable and aligned with Atradius business objectives.

If you are passionate about designing robust Java backend architectures working with modern backend frameworks building secure API ecosystems and defining scalable integration solutions we invite you to explore the opportunity to join us as our Java Backend Architect.

Job Description

As Java Backend Architect at Atradius you will define and guide the architecture of Java-based backend services APIs microservices and reusable integration components. Working closely with enterprise architecture cybersecurity DevOps engineering teams and product stakeholders you will translate business and platform needs into secure scalable maintainable technical this role you will set backend architecture principles promote modern Java frameworks and engineering practices review solution designs and provide technical leadership to teams delivering mission-critical backend services.

Responsibilities:

In this position your key responsibilities will be:

Java Backend Architecture & Modern Frameworks

• Define target architectures for Java backend services microservices APIs and reusable integration components ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and platform standards.
• Design scalable resilient and maintainable backend solutions using modern Java frameworks and patterns including Spring Boot Spring Cloud Quarkus Micronaut Jakarta EE RESTful services asynchronous messaging and event-driven integration where appropriate.
• Establish backend architecture principles covering modularity clean architecture domain-driven design dependency management performance scalability and long-term maintainability.
• Define and promote API design standards including contract-first design OpenAPI documentation versioning error handling pagination idempotency lifecycle management and backward compatibility.
• Review technical designs and implementation approaches to ensure consistency code quality performance security observability and operational readiness across backend and API solutions.
• Guide teams in selecting the right backend framework and architecture approach based on workload deployment model maintainability runtime performance and enterprise standards.

Backend Security APIs & Operational Excellence

• Embed security-by-design principles into Java backend and API solutions including authentication authorization secure communication secrets management input validation secure coding and dependency vulnerability management.
• Define and review API security patterns such as OAuth2 OpenID Connect JWT mTLS API gateways rate limiting threat protection access control models and integration with enterprise identity providers.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity teams to assess vulnerabilities security findings penetration test results and remediation plans affecting backend services APIs shared components and integration of assets.
• Promote observability structured logging distributed tracing monitoring alerting and operational readiness standards for Java backend services and API platforms.
• Support performance scalability resilience availability and fault-tolerance assessments for critical Java services APIs and integration flows.
• Ensure architecture decisions consider compliance auditability data protection risk management and secure operation in cloud-native and containerized environments.

Technical Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as a senior technical reference for Java backend API integration and backend security topics across delivery teams.
• Provide architectural guidance mentoring and technical coaching to engineers helping teams make sound design and implementation decisions.
• Facilitate architecture discussions design reviews proof-of-concepts and technical decision records with clear rationale and trade-offs.
• Collaborate with product owners solution architects enterprise architects cybersecurity DevOps and operations teams to align technical solutions with business and platform objectives.
• Contribute to technical roadmaps modernization initiatives platform standards and continuous improvement activities for APIs and backend services.
• Stay current with Java API management cloud-native Dev Sec Ops and backend security trends assessing their relevance for Atradius.

What do we offer

• A dynamic international and challenging work environment
• Training and support to reach your full potential including the opportunity for continuous professional development
• Attractive terms and conditions including competitive salary pension package and a range of flexible benefits and rewards
• Challenging tasks with individual development and training opportunities

Equal opportunities for all

The success of our organisation stands with the quality of our people and the ideas they have. Insights and innovative solutions for our customers are the result of an interplay of cultures knowledge and experience. That is why diversity is extremely important to Atradius. To ensure that all colleagues within Atradius can develop their qualities we promote an inclusive culture in which everyone feels involved and valued. We encourage and welcome everyone to apply to our positions.

Do you have any questions about our offer
Estrella RAMIREZ Human Resources is available by e-mail

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Get to know Atradius colleagues in this video: is a global provider of credit insurance bond and surety collections and information services with a strategic presence in over 50 countries. The products offered by Atradius protect companies around the world against the default risks associated with selling goods and services on credit. Atradius is a member of Grupo Catalana Occidente () one of the largest insurers in Spain and one of the largest credit insurers in the world.
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