About the role
Requirements:
- 15+ years of software engineering experience with a deep focus on backend development and architecture.
- Strong hands-on expertise in Java and backend frameworks such as Spring / Spring Boot.
- Proven experience designing and scaling distributed systems and microservices-based architectures.
- Strong understanding of backend system design, API design, multithreading and concurrency, data structures and algorithms, database design, caching strategies, event-driven systems, and performance tuning.
- Experience building high-throughput, low-latency, resilient backend services in production environments.
- Hands-on experience with cloud-native architecture, containerisation, and modern deployment practices.
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, observability, logging, monitoring, and production operations.
- Experience working with relational and NoSQL databases.
- Proven ability to drive architecture reviews, code quality, and engineering best practices.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills with the ability to work across product and engineering teams.
- Currently hands-on with production code.