SENIOR BACKEND SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Jobgether
Full-timesenior
Job description
Accountabilities:
• Lead the end-to-end development of complex backend features, including design, implementation, testing, debugging, and deployment.
• Drive technical decisions and contribute to scalable, maintainable architecture aligned with long-term business and product objectives.
• Mentor junior and intermediate engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and knowledge sharing to foster team growth.
• Identify operational risks and improve system reliability through redundancy planning, disaster recovery strategies, and service availability initiatives.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, frontend engineers, and other stakeholders to deliver cohesive, customer-focused solutions.
• Promote engineering excellence by improving development processes, encouraging automation, and enhancing overall delivery efficiency.
• Contribute to the stability, performance, and observability of high-traffic backend systems.
Requirements
• Extensive professional experience developing backend applications using Java and Spring Boot.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming principles, software design patterns, and backend engineering best practices.
• Hands-on experience building scalable microservices and working with MongoDB or similar NoSQL databases.
• Proven experience developing and maintaining enterprise-grade, high-availability software systems.
• Ability to design scalable architectures that balance immediate business needs with long-term sustainability.
• Strong commitment to writing clean, testable, observable, and maintainable code.
• Experience supporting high-traffic applications and distributed systems is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS or Google Cloud Platform and container technologies including Docker, Kubernetes, or CI/CD tools such as Jenkins is an advantage.
• Interest in open-source technologies and an understanding of user experience considerations are considered valuable assets.
• Excellent problem-solving, collaboration, communication, and mentoring skills.
Benefits
• Remote-first and flexible work environment.
• Competitive health benefits starting from day one.
• Generous paid time off policy supporting work-life balance.
• Professional learning, development, and career growth opportunities.
• Opportunity to work with modern technologies, including generative AI.
• Collaborative, supportive engineering culture with strong leadership.
• Meaningful work on products with real customer impact.
• Access to an innovative and welcoming office environment for those who wish to collaborate in person.
How Jobgether works:
We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.
We appreciate your interest and wish you the best!
Why Apply Through Jobgether?
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Skills
JavaSpring BootMongoDBAWSGoogle Cloud PlatformDockerKubernetesJenkins