We are seeking a Backend Engineer to design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs that power our internal and customer-facing applications. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to build reliable, scalable, and secure systems using Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, and AWS.

Responsibilities

• Develop, enhance, and maintain backend services using Java and Spring Boot.
• Design and implement RESTful APIs, ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Work with PostgreSQL, including schema design, query optimization, and performance tuning.
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code following best practices.
• Troubleshoot production issues and contribute to improving system stability and observability.
• Participate in code reviews, architectural discussions, sprint planning, and technical decisions.
• Maintain proper documentation of systems, APIs, and processes.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced and agile environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or relevant fields.
• Strong proficiency in Java and the Spring Boot ecosystem.
• Solid understanding of relational database concepts with hands-on experience in PostgreSQL.
• Strong foundation in software engineering principles: OOP, design patterns, data structures, algorithms.
• Experience with Git and standard development workflows.
• Familiarity with building and maintaining RESTful services and microservice architectures.
• Good problem-solving skills, a team player, and able to work independently and be self-driven.
• Good attitude and willingness to learn and pick up new skills.
• Able to perform support duties as required, including standby for production issues when they arise.
• Comfortable using AI tools to enhance productivity, debugging, or code generation.

Nice-to-Have

• Familiarity with Atlassian tools, including JIRA and Confluence.
• Experience with AWS cloud services (e.g. ECS/EKS, S3, RDS, Lambda).
• Exposure to Docker and containerized development.
• Experience deploying services on Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins or similar).
• Knowledge of message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS).
• Knowledge of caching mechanisms (e.g., Redis, in-memory caches).
• Monitoring/logging tools (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
• Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Understanding of authentication and authorization standards (OAuth2, JWT, IAM).
• Domain knowledge in the trading, or cryptopayment industry.