Staff Backend Engineer

What You'll Do

• Take ownership of complex customer problems and drive them end-to-end. This includes learning the business context, proposing solutions, leading the implementation and making sure adequate  monitoring and data is in place to measure the impact

• Lead technical initiatives that improve our existing systems to reduce complexity and improve development speed

• Collaborate with other functions in the team to deliver great solutions that take into account customer experience, business needs and technical concerns as well

• Mentor junior engineers, providing technical guidance and code reviews

• Contribute to our engineering culture through sharing knowledge, practices and design principles

What We Are Looking For 

• A passion for technology that drives learning and constantly improving the quality of the team’s systems

• The skill to break down and communicate complex technical concepts for non-technical audiences to collaborate effectively

• Ability to deliver complex projects in a true lean way, breaking them down to quick iterations and milestones, keeping the quality bar high

• Understanding the techniques to work with and improve complex existing systems, using clean interfaces between components and managing technical debt

• A proactive mindset: you take initiative to improve our codebase, architecture, and processes.

• Understanding of domain driven design principles and hexagonal architecture

• Experience with Java, Spring Boot, SQL databases and Kafka

  • Experience building complex microservices based systems