Scope of Services:
- Define and drive the long-term backend architecture strategy across multiple teams, ensuring clarity, scalability, and alignment.
- Establish and evolve engineering standards, patterns, and best practices for Java Spring Boot development.
- Lead cross-team technical initiatives end-to-end, aligning stakeholders across engineering, product, and design.
- Act as a technical leader and mentor for senior and mid-level engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and hands-on guidance.
- Collaborate with Product, Frontend, Design, and DevOps leadership to shape the technical roadmap.
- Proactively identify and address systemic risks such as performance issues, scalability limits, and security gaps.
- Promote a culture of ownership, observability, and operational excellence.
- Evaluate and prototype new architectural approaches, influencing future tooling, service design, and engineering practices.
- Support continuous improvement of backend systems in terms of reliability, maintainability, and performance.
Required Skills:
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- At least 5 years of hands-on experience building and operating backend systems using Java and Spring Boot.
- Expert-level knowledge of: Java (17+) Spring Boot, including advanced topics such as reactive programming, custom configurations, security, and performance tuning.
- Strong experience designing and evolving microservice architectures, including: service decomposition, inter-service communication (REST, GraphQL, messaging), shared components, and codebase organization.
- Deep understanding of data persistence, including: JPA/Hibernate, relational database design, query optimization, caching strategies (e.g., Redis).
- Strong knowledge of API design principles (RESTful).
- Familiarity with GraphQL is beneficial.
- Solid experience with testing strategies across all levels (unit, integration, end-to-end).
- Hands-on experience with: CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions), containerization (Docker), cloud environments (e.g., AWS).
- Experience with observability practices, including logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
- Proven ability to work across teams and influence technical direction without direct authority.
- Strong communication skills — able to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Nice to Have:
- Experience defining and scaling engineering standards across multiple teams or domains.
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures and messaging systems.
- Practical experience modernizing or refactoring legacy systems.
- Active usage of AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Copilot, Cursor) as part of daily workflow.
- Experience shaping engineering culture and mentoring at scale.
- Exposure to high-availability, high-traffic production environments.
** The provided monthly salary is gross (taxes included).
