FX - Senior Backend Engineer - Job4800

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Backend Engineer to join our dynamic development team. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining robust backend solutions that power our applications. You will collaborate closely with cross functional teams to deliver high quality software products. If you are passionate about building scalable systems, have strong technical expertise in backend development, and thrive in a collaborative environment, we would love to hear from you.

Job Responsibilities

• Designing and developing efficient and scalable backend solutions Java with the Spring framework.
• Collaborating with cross functional teams to understand requirements and translate them into technical designs.
• Writing clean, maintainable code following best practices and coding standards.
• Optimizing application performance by implementing caching mechanisms, query optimizations, and other performance tuning techniques.
• Implementing CI/CD pipelines to improve code stability and quality through automated testing, code reviews, and continuous integration processes.
• Utilizing observability and monitoring tools such as DataDog to proactively identify issues and ensure system reliability.
• Defining REST API specifications that adhere to industry standards and best practices.
• Setting up cron jobs for scheduled tasks or data processing.

Basic Qualifications

• Proficiency in Java is a must-have requirement. Strong knowledge of the Spring framework is also required.  
• Solid understanding of relational databases like MySQL for data modeling, querying, optimization, and database management.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines to improve code stability through automated testing (unit tests, integration tests) and continuous integration processes is essential.
• Familiarity with the Java ecosystem including frameworks (such as Spring Boot), libraries (e.g., Hibernate), build tools (like Maven or Gradle), etc. A minimum of 6  years of handson experience in backend development using Java is preferred.
• Experience with observability tools like DataDog or similar, to monitor and troubleshoot application performance, is highly desirable.
• Strong knowledge and experience in defining and building REST API specifications following industry best practices.
• Bonus skills: Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, containerization technologies (e.g., Docker), and orchestration tools like Kubernetes.