Senior Specialist, Back-End Engineer

Job description

In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways: • Design, develop, and maintain high-performance Java applications and services. • Write clean, efficient, secure, and scalable code following engineering standards and best practices. • Collaborate with cross-functional partners in Product and Operations to define requirements, design solutions, and deliver features end-to-end. • Diagnose and resolve defects and performance bottlenecks; participate in incident response and post-incident improvements as needed. • Contribute to architectural decisions and technical strategy (APIs, data models, reliability, observability, scalability). • Participate in code reviews to maintain quality, share knowledge, and reinforce consistent patterns. • Improve developer productivity through automation, better tooling, and CI/CD improvements. • Mentor and support engineers across the team; foster a culture of continuous learning and constructive feedback. • Stay current with emerging technologies and recommend pragmatic adoption where valuable. • Delivers high-quality features quickly by breaking down work effectively and removing bottlenecks. • Improves system performance, reliability, and maintainability through disciplined engineering practices. • Raises team output through mentorship, constructive code reviews, and sharing reusable patterns. • Balances speed with risk management, security, and operational readiness. • Continuously learns and pragmatically applies new tools/techniques to improve outcomes. To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following: • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience). • Exposure to full-stack development including Java 11, Spring 5, Spring Boot 3, HTML, CSS, JSON, Angular 10+, and JavaScript is highly desirable • Advanced SQL skills, including PL/SQL development and performance tuning in Oracle and/or PostgreSQL. • DevOps knowledge along with Gitlab CI/CD automation • Security Authentication/ Authorization Knowledge (OIDC OAuth, Azure MFA) • Experience with automation and AI-driven solutions is a plus.