Senior Backend Engineer; Java - B2B Saas

Overview

The Role

• Collaborate effectively with Clients, Product Management, and User Experience teams.
• Work closely with the client team during the system design for new and existing features.
• Write clear and concise technical design documentation when assigned tasks to develop a feature and then drive the discussion with your peer developer group.
• Review design documentation to ensure it clearly communicates assumptions, options, and provides justified recommendations.
• Develop testable software artefacts with associated unit tests.
• Review pull requests (PRs) in a meaningful way when assigned by team members.
• Embrace the Agile processes used by the development team, while also suggesting and influencing incremental improvements.

The Role - In this role, you will report to the CTO and will:

• Collaborate effectively with Clients, Product Management, and User Experience teams.
• Work closely with the client team during the system design for new and existing features.
• Write clear and concise technical design documentation when assigned tasks to develop a feature and then drive the discussion with your peer developer group.
• Review design documentation to ensure it clearly communicates assumptions, options, and provides justified recommendations.
• Develop testable software artefacts with associated unit tests.
• Review pull requests (PRs) in a meaningful way when assigned by team members.
• Embrace the Agile processes used by the development team, while also suggesting and influencing incremental improvements.

• You possess a bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field.
• You have at least 5+ years of proven experience working as a backend developer in a strongly typed language framework.
• You are skilled in Domain-Driven Design (DDD), functional decomposition, and designing modular, service-based architectures.
• You have strong, hands-on knowledge of software design patterns, especially in software service development.
• You have in-depth expertise in Java (preferred) or C#, and experience with RDMS such as MS SQL, MySQL, or Postgres.
• You are skilled in debugging, profiling, and troubleshooting, with proven experience using industry-standard tool sets.
• You have practical experience with data transformation tools (GSON, Protobuf, etc.) as well as server-side frameworks (Graph
  
  QL, etc.).
• You have a strong working knowledge of AWS services (S3, Cloudfront, API GW, Lambda, Serverless, etc.).
• You thrive in fast-paced, dynamic environments, and can successfully deliver while working with distributed teams.

• Exciting role with a well-funded and fast-growing construction & logistics SaaS company expanding globally
• Opportunity to collaborate with visionary founders and seasoned industry leaders in a fast-growing SaaS environment
• Chance to work on complex, large-scale engineering challenges with modern technologies