Senior Java Engineer

Role Overview

• Define and drive the long-term backend architecture strategy across multiple teams, ensuring clarity, scalability, and alignment
• Establish and evolve engineering standards, patterns, and best practices for Java Spring Boot development
• Lead cross-team technical initiatives end-to-end, aligning stakeholders across engineering, product, and design
• Act as a technical leader and mentor for senior and mid-level engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and hands-on guidance
• Collaborate with Product, Frontend, Design, and DevOps leadership to shape the technical roadmap
• Proactively identify and address systemic risks such as performance issues, scalability limits, and security gaps
• Promote a culture of ownership, observability, and operational excellence
• Evaluate and prototype new architectural approaches, influencing future tooling, service design, and engineering practices
• Support continuous improvement of backend systems in terms of reliability, maintainability, and performance

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
• At least 5 years of hands-on experience building and operating backend systems using Java and Spring Boot
• Expert-level knowledge of: Java (17+) Spring Boot, including advanced topics such as reactive programming, custom configurations, security, and performance tuning
• Strong experience designing and evolving microservice architectures, including: service decomposition, inter-service communication (REST, GraphQL, messaging), shared components and codebase organization
• Deep understanding of data persistence, including: JPA/Hibernate, relational database design, query optimization, caching strategies (e.g. Redis)
• Strong knowledge of API design principles (RESTful); familiarity with GraphQL is beneficial
• Solid experience with testing strategies across all levels (unit, integration, end-to-end)
• Hands-on experience with: CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions), containerization (Docker), cloud environments (e.g. AWS)
• Experience with observability practices, including logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting
• Proven ability to work across teams and influence technical direction without direct authority
• Strong communication skills — able to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Nice to have: Experience defining and scaling engineering standards across multiple teams or domains
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures and messaging systems
• Practical experience modernizing or refactoring legacy systems
• Active usage of AI-assisted development tools (e.g. Copilot, Cursor) as part of daily workflow
• Experience shaping engineering culture and mentoring at scale
• Exposure to high-availability, high-traffic production environments

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Cloud
• Docker
• GraphQL
• Hibernate
• Java
• Redis
• Spring
• Spring Boot
• SpringBoot