Java Backend Developer

We are looking for an experienced Backend Engineer with strong expertise in the JVM ecosystem to help build and scale our distributed, cloud-native services. The ideal candidate has a solid engineering foundation, hands-on experience with modern Java frameworks, and a passion for designing reliable, high-performance systems.

What You’ll Do

• Develop and maintain backend services using Java 17 or other JVM languages, applying best practices in clean code, design principles, and performance optimization.
• Work extensively with the Spring ecosystem to build scalable microservices and cloud-ready applications.
• Design and implement asynchronous, event-driven components leveraging messaging technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Collaborate on architecting distributed systems with a focus on resilience, observability, and scalability.
• Build and maintain data persistence layers using SQL and NoSQL databases, ensuring efficient query performance and thoughtful data modeling.
• Integrate and operate AWS services, especially S3, SQS, and SNS, while ensuring proper configuration, monitoring, and cost awareness.
• Work in containerized environments using Docker and deploy workloads to Kubernetes clusters, including local setups like Minikube.
• Implement and enhance CI/CD pipelines with platforms like GitHub Actions and Jenkins.
• Contribute to API design efforts using a contract-first approach, defining REST or gRPC interfaces collaboratively before implementation.
• Build observability into services using leading tools such as Prometheus, Datadog, CloudWatch, Splunk, or Kibana for monitoring, alerting, and log analysis.
• Work with reactive and non-blocking programming paradigms, using frameworks such as Spring WebFlux or Vert.x.

What You Bring

• 4+ years of professional software development experience, ideally building backend or distributed systems.
• Strong command of modern Java concepts including concurrency, collections, JDBC, and common design patterns.
• Hands-on experience with microservices architecture, asynchronous communication, and distributed system fundamentals.
• Working knowledge of cloud platforms, preferably AWS, with practical experience integrating cloud services into backend solutions.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes operations and container tooling, with 1–2 years of practical, production-oriented exposure.
• Experience with messaging systems, API design, and contract-first development methodologies.
• Strong understanding of caching technologies such as Redis, Caffeine, or Elasticsearch.
• Ability to troubleshoot performance issues across application, network, and database layers.

Soft Skills & Team Expectations

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to share ideas clearly within a globally distributed team.
• A collaborative mindset—comfortable partnering with engineers, product managers, finance teams, and other stakeholders.
• Ownership-driven mentality with a focus on delivering high-quality work that positively impacts business outcomes.
• Curiosity and adaptability—willing to explore new tools, frameworks, and architectural approaches, and able to adopt them quickly.