Senior Java Backend Developer :

Location : Remote

Role Overview :

We are looking for a Senior Backend Developer to join our multidisciplinary agile core platform development teams.

Responsibilities include building, maintaining, operating and optimising our platform composed of Java services running event driven processes and RESTful APIs, running on AWS infrastructure, responsible for responsible for managing and delivering Video on Demand and Live Events in the platform to users around the world.

We are looking for driven individuals with a high level of attention to detail, sense of ownership and engineering passion. Willing to work in a highly demanding, dynamic and flexible environment where a proactive attitude and eagerness to learn is highly valued. Prepared to join highly experienced and skilled teams working on world leading engineering problems at global scale.

Key Responsibilities :

- Design, develop, and maintain high-quality backend services using Java (11 and above) following industry best practices.

- Build and manage RESTful APIs to support scalable, secure, and reliable application functionality.

- Develop and maintain event-driven and distributed systems, ensuring performance, scalability, and fault tolerance.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product, frontend, QA, and DevOps to deliver end-to-end solutions.

- Participate actively in system design, architecture discussions, and technical decision-making.

- Ensure code quality through clean coding practices, design patterns, and regular code reviews.

- Implement and maintain automated testing (unit and integration tests) to ensure system reliability and maintainability.

- Design and optimize database schemas and queries using relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL.

- Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve production issues, ensuring minimal downtime and quick recovery.

- Support deployment, monitoring, and optimization of applications in cloud-based environments.

Requirements :

- 6+ Years of hands-on experience as a Software Developer, up to Senior Developer level, with a proven track record of creating software independently

- Strong Java11 and above versions

- Strong relational database experience (MySQL and/or PostgreSQL)

- Software design/design patterns

- Experience working on event driven systems

- Automated testing (Unit, Integration) & the ability to design test cases for QA

- RESTful API (JAX-RS, Dropwizard/Spring Boot or similar)

- Experience working in an agile development team

Good to have :

- AWS Cloud (EC2, RDS, S3, SQS, Kinesis, DynamoDB)

- Docker

- NoSQL

- Infrastructure as code tools (Ansible/Terraform)

- Scala or familiarity with functional programming paradigms

- Experience delivering complex features with no downtime in the system