Senior Specialist, Back-End Engineer
Summary
The Senior Specialist Back-End Engineer will design, develop, and maintain high-performance Java applications while collaborating with cross-functional teams. The role involves optimizing system performance, mentoring engineers, and utilizing technologies such as Spring Boot, SQL, and CI/CD pipelines.
In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways:
Design, develop, and maintain high-performance Java applications and services.
Write clean, efficient, secure, and scalable code following engineering standards and best practices.
Collaborate with cross-functional partners in Product and Operations to define requirements, design solutions, and deliver features end-to-end.
Diagnose and resolve defects and performance bottlenecks; participate in incident response and post-incident improvements as needed.
Contribute to architectural decisions and technical strategy (APIs, data models, reliability, observability, scalability).
Participate in code reviews to maintain quality, share knowledge, and reinforce consistent patterns.
Improve developer productivity through automation, better tooling, and CI/CD improvements.
Mentor and support engineers across the team; foster a culture of continuous learning and constructive feedback.
Stay current with emerging technologies and recommend pragmatic adoption where valuable.
Delivers high-quality features quickly by breaking down work effectively and removing bottlenecks.
Improves system performance, reliability, and maintainability through disciplined engineering practices.
Raises team output through mentorship, constructive code reviews, and sharing reusable patterns.
Balances speed with risk management, security, and operational readiness.
Continuously learns and pragmatically applies new tools/techniques to improve outcomes.
To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following:
Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
- Exposure to full-stack development including Java 11, Spring 5, Spring Boot 3, HTML, CSS, JSON, Angular 10+, and JavaScript is highly desirable
Advanced SQL skills, including PL/SQL development and performance tuning in Oracle and/or PostgreSQL.
DevOps knowledge along with Gitlab CI/CD automation
Security Authentication/ Authorization Knowledge (OIDC OAuth, Azure MFA)
Experience with automation and AI-driven solutions is a plus.