Senior Backend Engineer

Purpose: To design, develop, and optimize complex backend systems and services, ensuring scalability, security, performance, and reliability while contributing to technical standards and engineering improvements.  Main Duties and Responsibilities: • Design and develop scalable backend services and APIs in Java and Spring Boot within a microservices architecture.  • Own delivery of complex features end to end, from technical design through production.  • Design and optimize database interactions, integrations, and inter-service communication.  • Build and operate event-driven flows using Kafka and enterprise messaging.  • Ensure solutions meet security, performance, availability, and maintainability requirements.  • Apply secure coding practices for authentication, authorization, encryption, and sensitive data handling.  • Conduct code reviews and uphold engineering standards across the squad.  • Troubleshoot complex production issues and implement durable fixes.  • Contribute to technical design decisions and application architecture.  • Improve CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, deployment, and observability on OpenShift/Kubernetes.  • Identify technical debt and drive improvements to design and code quality.  • Mentor junior engineers and share knowledge across the chapter.