StartupHeroes is looking for a Backend Software Engineer to build features, design and implement API methods, and improve the performance and reliability of our systems as we rapidly support products and organisations.

We build apps using reliable tools that our team knows and trusts, Kubernetes, Java, AWS, and MySQL. Expertise in these areas is a huge plus, but having familiarity with other common web languages (such as Python or Go) and other relational databases are fine substitutes. We’re a collaborative team who genuinely enjoys working together with a cross-functional team of product managers, designers, frontend, iOS, Android, automation, and quality engineers to make our apps a better. We are looking for engineers that understand that simplicity and reliability are aspects of a system to be carefully calculated with every decision made.

StartupHeroes has a positive, diverse, and supportive culture—we look for people who are curious, inventive, and work to be a little better every single day. In our work together we aim to be smart, humble, hardworking and, above all, collaborative. If this sounds like a good fit for you, why not say hello?

What you will be doing

• You'll brainstorm with Product Managers, Designers, Backend, and Frontend Engineers on your team to conceptualize and build new features for our products.
• You’ll produce high-quality results by contributing heavily to team projects that have a significant impact on the business.
• You’ll actively own team features or systems and define their long-term health, while also improving the health of surrounding systems.
• You'll assist our skilled support and operation teams in triaging and resolving production issues.
• You’ll improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.

What you should have

• You have completed a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or
• related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience.
• You have 0–3 years of professional experience.
• You possess strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, programming languages, distributed systems and RESTful services.
• You have experience with Java (preferably Java 11+).
• You have worked with relational databases and have solid SQL knowledge.
• You can contribute to technical architecture discussions and drive technical decisions within your team.
• You write understandable, testable code with an eye toward maintainability.
• You are a strong communicator. Explaining complex technical concepts to other engineers and stakeholders is no problem for you.

What is nice to have

• Experience with Spring Boot, Maven, Kafka, AWS, Kubernetes.
• Experience with observability aspects, such as metrics, monitoring, and logging.
• Experience in scalable microservice architecture.
• Experience with caching technologies like Caffeine, Redis and Memcached.
• Interest in full-stack development with hands-on experience in React and TypeScript, plus exposure to micro-frontend design patterns.