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Senior Engineer Backend

Open 17d

You will design, build, run, and scale the services your team owns. You will develop event-driven microservices, expose and consume RESTful APIs, work with cloud-native delivery pipelines, and monitor production services. You will also partner with Product Owners to translate user, business, and regulatory needs into well-engineered solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, run, and scale team-owned services globally.
  • Build services using Java 17, 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.
  • Use GitOps with ArgoCD.
  • Monitor services and investigate issues using DataDog.
  • Collaborate with Product Owners to translate user, business, and regulatory needs into solutions.

Requirements

  • Experience building server-side applications.
  • Knowledge of relevant programming languages and willingness to learn Java.
  • 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 and practical Agile delivery.
  • Ability to deliver secure, well-tested, and well-documented software.
  • Experience integrating with third-party providers and partners.
  • Ability to use AI tools and LLMs to improve engineering productivity, software quality, and delivery velocity.

Benefits

  • Share options.
  • Generous annual leave in addition to bank holidays.
  • Paid maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
  • Paid and unpaid sabbatical options after milestone years.
  • Private family health insurance with OPD coverage and top-up options.
  • Accidental and life insurance.
  • Access to therapy sessions, courses, meditations, and workshops.
  • Paid volunteering and personal-growth days.
  • Annual learning and development budget.
  • Work from abroad for up to 90 days annually.
  • Home office setup contribution.
  • Laptop ownership upon replacement.
  • Office snacks, coffee, tea, and lunch, depending on location.

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