Senior Java Backend Developer
Summary
Senior Java Backend Developer in Dubai designing, building, and operating high-volume data services for a security software vendor, with end-to-end feature ownership in short iterations. Core stack: Java 8+, SQL and NoSQL databases, distributed/event-driven microservices, Docker, Linux, Prometheus and Grafana.
Our client, a software vendor in the security space, is seeking an experienced Backend Developer to design, build and run high-volume data services. This is an end-to-end ownership role: you’ll shape new features alongside users, ship them in short iterations, and keep them running reliably in production.
What you’ll do
- Design and build services that process and store large volumes of data, choosing the right storage technology for each job
- Maintain and improve existing services for performance, stability and data integrity
- Troubleshoot production issues across code, infrastructure and databases
- Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code within a peer-review culture
- Work closely with cross-functional teams, customers and end users
What you’ll bring
- 5+ years’ professional software development, with Java (8+) as your primary language
- Solid experience across relational (SQL) and NoSQL databases
- Proven track record building distributed, microservice-based and event-driven systems
- Strong grasp of architecture, design patterns and trade-offs
- Hands-on Docker, Linux and command-line proficiency
- Observability experience with Prometheus and Grafana
- Understanding of Mechanical Sympathy and working knowledge of low-level network programming
Nice to have: SIP/RTP protocol experience (highly desirable); Spring Boot; Kafka, RabbitMQ, NSQ or ActiveMQ; MongoDB and Elasticsearch; Spark, Iceberg or data warehouse design; S3-style object storage; Ansible and Kubernetes; Python.