Senior Backend Engineer

Deed

WorldwideremotePosted 9 days ago

Skill Required

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Key highlights

Level Required: 6+ years of professional experience
Salary/compensation: Not mentioned in the source
Key benefit: Not explicitly stated
Notable requirement: Deep functional knowledge or hands‑on experience in microservices development is a must.

Role overview

The Senior Backend Engineer will collaborate with a talented engineering team to create scalable, high‑performance core platform services built mainly on the Spring framework. The role emphasizes hands‑on programming, architectural design, and continuous improvement of distributed and micro‑service back‑end systems while fostering a collaborative team culture in a fast‑paced, startup‑like environment.

Responsibilities

Assists in defining software architectures – collaborates with leads to explore existing systems, identifies complexity and risk areas, and learns application capabilities.
Builds software applications primarily for the JVM platform – follows coding standards and maintains strong programming discipline.
Maintains and enhances distributed applications.
Maintains and enhances backend and middleware services (micro‑services style).
Builds a healthy team environment through professional collaboration.
Takes full ownership and responsibility for assigned work.
Brings a professional attitude to work and demonstrates belief in the team’s efforts.

Requirements

6+ years of professional experience
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
Strong proficiency in Java, Spring framework technologies, and Spring Cloud services
Deep functional knowledge or hands‑on experience in microservices development (required)
Understanding of fundamental design principles behind scalable applications
Ability to multitask and recommend/enforce industry best practices and patterns
Strong grasp of transactional and asynchronous programming across microservices topologies
Strong understanding of security standards such as OAuth2
Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases (e.g., MySQL, Elasticsearch)
Strong experience with Docker containerization
Strong experience with Amazon Web Services
Strong understanding of code versioning tools / Source Control Management (Git, GitHub, Bitbucket)
Ability to operate effectively both independently and within a team using Agile methodology
Ability to use, track, and respond to all work assignments via a JIRA‑based ticketing system

Nice to have

Passionate, energetic, and driven to achieve progress and growth by thinking above and beyond
Always hustling and ready to take on big bold bets
Customer‑obsessed, focused on earning trust and solving customers’ problems
Results‑driven, capable of overcoming obstacles and challenging the status quo