Backend Engineer

About the Role

We are looking for a Backend Engineer with Java experience to design, build, and maintain scalable server-side applications and services. The successful candidate will work closely with product managers, frontend engineers, QA, DevOps, and other stakeholders to deliver reliable, secure, and high-performing software solutions.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex technical problems, writing clean and maintainable code, and contributing to systems that support business-critical products and digital services.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain backend services, APIs, and applications using Java.

• Build scalable, reliable, and secure server-side components that support web, mobile, and enterprise applications.

• Develop and integrate RESTful APIs and backend services with frontend applications and third-party systems.

• Write clean, efficient, reusable, and well-documented code following software engineering best practices.

• Work with relational and/or NoSQL databases to design schemas, write queries, and optimise data access.

• Participate in system design, technical discussions, code reviews, and architecture improvements.

• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve application issues across development, testing, and production environments.

• Improve application performance, reliability, scalability, observability, and security.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in an Agile development environment to deliver high-quality software on schedule.

• Support continuous integration, continuous delivery, automated testing, and deployment practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

• Hands-on backend development experience using Java.

• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming, data structures, algorithms, and software design principles.

• Experience with Java frameworks such as Spring Boot, Spring Framework, or similar backend frameworks.

• Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs and integrating backend services with frontend or external systems.

• Familiarity with SQL databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or Microsoft SQL Server.

• Experience with version control tools such as Git.

• Good understanding of unit testing, integration testing, debugging, and code quality practices.

• Knowledge of Agile development practices and working in collaborative engineering teams.

• Strong problem-solving, analytical thinking, communication, and teamwork skills.

Good to Have

• Experience with microservices architecture and distributed systems.

• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

• Familiarity with containerisation and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.

• Knowledge of messaging systems such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar technologies.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated deployment, and DevOps practices.

• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and observability tools.

• Understanding of secure coding practices, authentication, authorisation, and application security principles.