Senior Java Engineer (Communications Platform)
Summary
Designs and builds a scalable, event-driven communications platform handling millions of messages across email, SMS, voice, and push notifications using Java and distributed systems.
Senior Java Engineer (Communications Platform)
We are looking for a Senior Java Engineer to join the Event-Driven Communications Platform project full-time. We are building a modern multi-channel communications platform capable of delivering critical messages to millions of recipients across email, SMS, voice, and push notifications.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Design and implement a scalable event-driven communications platform
- Build highly reliable and fault-tolerant message delivery systems
- Manage large-scale real-time event processing pipelines
- Design and implement multi-channel delivery pipelines (email, SMS, voice, push)
- Handle compliance requirements, consent management, and communication policies
- Support emergency and high-priority notification workflows
- Implement provider failover and resiliency strategies to ensure delivery continuity
- Build tracking systems for delivery status, retries, and engagement events
- Design and implement observability, reporting, and analytics infrastructure
- Develop event processing and message orchestration workflows
- Implement provider integrations and external messaging service adapters
- Ensure system scalability, throughput, and performance under high load
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams on communication flows and requirements
- Contribute to architectural decisions and long-term platform evolution
- Ensure operational stability, reliability, and maintainability of the system
- At least 5 years of backend or platform engineering experience
- Strong expertise in Java development
- Experience with distributed systems
- Strong experience with event-driven architectures
- Experience with messaging systems (queues, streams, brokers)
- Experience designing high-scale APIs and backend services
- Strong understanding of system reliability and fault tolerance
- Upper-Intermediate+ English level
- Experience with email/SMS delivery systems
- Experience with telecom or messaging infrastructure
- Experience with marketing automation platforms
- Experience with notification or engagement systems
- Experience with workflow engines
- Experience with compliance-heavy systems (consent, GDPR-like regulations)
- Experience with high-throughput event processing systems
- Experience with cloud-native platforms (GCP preferred)
- Work at a Top-employer company (according to DOU 2025)
- A strong culture built on empathy, trust, openness, and real care for employees
- Competitive compensation with regular reviews
- Medical insurance
- Personal learning budget and access to top HR tools, platforms, and practices
- Team events and regular team-building activities
- Flexible hybrid work model with an office in central Kyiv