Senior Backend Engineer - GFU

We re looking for a top-tier Backend Engineer who has an eye for detail and is committed to delivering top-notch quality.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be responsible for crucial aspects of our product development and architecture. Working closely within a component team, alongside various specialists and business stakeholders, youll be pivotal in shaping our NextGen engineering culture. You will be a key player in guiding decisions regarding architecture, engineering and design decisions for scheduling domain within Setmore.

Roles and responsibilities

• Drive our efforts in designing Backend architecture.
• Develop new features in our stack.
• Write high-performing, clean code that is easy to test and maintain.
• Perform regular code reviews.
• Passionately pursue zero-defect code and support other developers to ensure that the deliverables exceed business expectations.
• Assist in defining and refining our internal standards, practices, and processes to continuously improve our outcomes.
• Champion performance, reliability, and security of our products and services across multiple devices and browsers.
• Refactor existing codebase to improve readability, maintainability, and performance.
• Act as a subject matter expert and support your colleagues.
• Regularly collaborate with other engineers, designers, QAs, and PMs.
• Create and maintain clear, accurate technical documentation to support effective collaboration and understanding across teams.
• Identify, troubleshoot and promptly resolve backend issues and bugs to ensure a smooth user experience.

Job requirements ( Must have)

• 7+ years of experience building scalable, maintainable and cross-platform web applications using modern technologies.
• Excellent working knowledge of backend technologies including Java 17, Spring Boot, RESTEasy, Node.js, Express, and Redis.
• Strong working knowledge of Design Patterns: REST API, and Messaging - Cloud Pub/Sub (or Kafka or Amazon equivalent).
• Strong experience working on the API design and integration, API versioning and change management, and proficiency in API design best practices.
• Proficiency in database technologies such as SQL and NoSQL databases, including strong understanding of ACID.
• Experience or certification with GCP.
• Committed to writing clean code and following software development best practices and standards.
• Experience in working on high-traffic applications.
• Experience with microservices architecture.
• Experience in working with distributed systems.
• Experience with CI/CD systems.
• Experience dealing with performance and optimisation problems, particularly at large scale; must have a demonstrated ability to diagnose and prevent these problems.
• Experience in working on at least a few different products with different objectives, limitations and challenges and flexibility in figuring out the best approach.
• Experience in refactoring code to improve the design and structure of the product.
• Ability to be an individual contributor and a proactive team player based on the requirements of the hour.
• Ability to navigate the challenges and maximise the opportunities that arise while working in a remote environment with diverse global teams using various modes of communication and information sharing.
• Committed to collaborating to solve problems together with empathy and creativity.
• C1 level of English language proficiency (both written and verbal).
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and / or organisational problems.
• Experience in mentoring and training junior engineers.

Good to have

• Experience with GitHub Actions.
• Experience with Gradle.
• Knowledge of booking/ scheduling domain or experience working on related products.
• Working experience in SaaS products.
• Experience in building product from scratch.