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Senior Backend Engineer

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You will design, build, operate, and globally scale the microservices your team owns. You will develop backend services, expose and consume RESTful APIs, integrate event-driven systems, and use cloud-native delivery practices. You will deploy frequently, monitor services, investigate issues, and work with Product Owners to translate user, business, and regulatory needs into well-engineered solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, operate, and scale event-driven microservices
  • Develop services using Java, Spring Boot, and JOOQ
  • Expose and consume RESTful APIs
  • Send events using SNS, SQS, and Kafka
  • Use PostgreSQL via Aurora as the primary datastore
  • Deploy services to production through CI/CD pipelines
  • Monitor services and investigate issues using DataDog
  • Collaborate with Product Owners to translate user, business, and regulatory needs into engineering solutions

Requirements

  • Experience building server-side applications
  • Knowledge of a backend framework such as Spring or Spring Boot
  • Experience building microservices that expose and consume RESTful APIs
  • Experience engineering scalable and reliable cloud-native solutions
  • Understanding of CI/CD fundamentals and practical Agile delivery
  • Ability to deliver secure, well-tested, and well-documented software
  • Experience integrating with third-party providers and partners
  • Willingness to learn Java

Benefits

  • MELP flexible benefit app with 50 EUR per month
  • 25 days paid annual leave
  • 3 paid days off for volunteering or learning and development activities
  • Parental leave
  • Family-friendly leave
  • Mental wellbeing platform Plumm
  • Work-from-home equipment allowance
  • Sabbatical leave
  • Share options
  • Team events

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