Senior Backend Engineer (Java)

The Job in Short

We are looking for an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to strengthen our team. As a Senior Backend Engineer you will join the Identity value stream within the R&D department. To develop software, creating clean and maintainable code which helps with building and expanding our product. Your tailor-made code seamlessly integrates our products with customers’ systems. You ensure our solutions are tested, accessible, extensible, maintainable, secure and perform well. The devil is in the detail and nothing escapes your sight. In this role, you work in an empowered team of highly skilled software developers. You are encouraged to introduce your own ideas and challenge others.

Meet the Job

You provide solid technical solutions to complex issues whilst helping us deliver the best customer experience and reinforce company reputation. You use your deep understanding of backend engineering, programming languages and tools to analyse current code and industry developments, formulate efficient processes, solve problems and create a seamless experience for millions of users across the globe.

You coach a team of developers on the client and partner side, and thrive working with colleagues from multiple cultures.

Backbase provides a modern software solution developed in microservices architecture, ensuring financial institutions can build on the top of cutting-edge technology. As such, many modern principles have been adopted such as continuous integration and delivery. We have also adopted Agile practices that contribute to rapid delivery, with decisions being driven out of the team with autonomy rather than top down.

The underlying technology runs on the best of breed technology available today such as Spring Boot, Netflix OSS, coupled with our own in-house libraries to ensure consistent delivery to a highly regulated banking market. Our technology drives solutions in a variety of ways for customers, from cloud native, globally scaled deployments to on-premise managed application servers, demanding smart thinking and innovative solutions from our people.

How about you?

• You have 6+ years of relevant working experience working on complex products;
• Your background speaks for itself; you have solid experience working in enterprise projects
• Experience in the banking domain or Fintech products will be considered an advantage, in addition to experience of the IAM domain
• You have excellent communication skills in English, spoken and written
• We are looking forward to learning about your additional skills, like Spring Boot, Hibernate, Rest APIs, Microservices, containerization, CI/CD, design patterns and automated tests.
• You are passionate about embracing AI/ML tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor AI, and IntelliJ (AI) and you enjoy shaping the product or platform’s functionality with AI.
• You have experience in areas such as security, performance, and scalability.