About the job Senior Back-End Engineer
Backend Engineer (AI-First Environment)
This Role Might Be For You If
You're an experienced backend engineer who's genuinely excited about AI, but feel held back. Maybe your current environment is slow to adopt new tools. Maybe innovation is talked about but not practiced. Maybe you're already using AI assistants in your personal projects and wondering why your day job feels years behind.
In this role, AI-assisted development is core to how work gets done, not an experiment or side project.
You also wont be building features that sit in a backlog for months. Youll regularly push code to production that has real impact on users, with fast feedback loops and visible results.
What Youll Do
Solve real problems
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Deeply understand problems before solving them
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Build robust backend solutions
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Identify and surface technical risks early
Work with modern tools
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Use AI development tools as part of your daily workflow
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Stay current with emerging tools and challenge the existing stack
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Propose improvements when better solutions exist
Architect systems that matter
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Own architectural decisions for a Spring / Java backend
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Help design and shape AI-driven features
Own the API layer
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Design and evolve APIs with clean, scalable contracts
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Enable teams to move fast without breaking things
Lead through influence
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Set technical standards
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Guide architectural decisions
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Raise the bar across the engineering team
Who Were Looking For
Strong backend experience
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5+ years building backend systems
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Solid Spring / Java expertise
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Experience designing systems at scale and making thoughtful trade-offs
AI-native workflow
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Actively using AI development tools in day-to-day work
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Strong judgement on when AI output is production-ready
NoSQL experience
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Experience with document-based databases
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Comfortable modelling data outside traditional relational structures
Architectural mindset
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Ability to reason about complex systems
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Strong API design instincts
Ownership
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Comfortable taking responsibility from concept through to production
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Proactive in identifying and solving problems
Collaborative approach
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Communicates decisions clearly
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Enjoys working with others to find the best solution
Nice to Have
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AWS experience
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Docker
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Some DevOps exposure