Senior Backend Developer

Job Reference: V937W8

Job Description:

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will develop new products, redesign and scale existing features, and perform research and testing on Product concepts. You will actively participate in all stages of a feature or product’s life by working closely with our founders and product team.

Our backend stack

• Java / Groovy / Grails / Tomcat
• Cassandra

Our data stack:

• Apache Spark and Zeppelin
• Cassandra 
• Elasticsearch / Kibana

Our DevOps stack:

• Continuous integration via Gitlab, excellent automated test coverage and code review process 
• Continuous rollout (several releases per week) with one-step build, test & deployment

What will you do?

• Work closely with Product to design and develop new or updated features of our products
• Participate in code reviews as both a reviewer and submitter
• Provide technical support to our internal and external users
• Develop and execute technical vision and architecture for Privacy-By-Design features such as Encryption and Merge Instructions 
• Scale the JVM-based backend, Apache Cassandra and Elasticsearch/Kibana to handle an order of magnitude traffic volume
• Identify opportunities to improve the processes around topics like application security, CI/CD, infrastructure and data processing

Qualifications:

• Someone with several years of work experience, preferably in a highly scalable technology environment
• A background in Engineering or Computer Science
• Enjoys collaborating with others and has excellent communication skills
• Ideally, someone with experience and skills in Java or a language of the JVM (Groovy, Scala, ...), Databases (Cassandra, SQL), Data processing frameworks (Spark, Elastic Stack)
• Loves learning about new technologies and related tools to introduce to the company to grow the product and development environment
• An open-minded individual who will thrive in a startup environment. Responsibility, autonomy, enthusiasm, humility, and drive are key characteristics required to be successful in this role

Employment Type

Full-time