Backend Engineer (Java)

Responsibilities 🤘

• Core Engineering
• Design, build, and maintain high-quality REST APIs and backend services using Java and Spring Boot.
• Implement and evolve event-driven workflows using Google Cloud Pub/Sub to synchronise profile data across multiple products.
• Improve the performance, reliability, and observability of the service (logging, metrics, tracing, alerting).
• Architecture & Technical Direction
• Work closely with Senior Engineers and the rest of your team to influence the future architecture our systems, data contracts, and event schemas.
• Contribute to the design and evolution of domain events, ensuring schema consistency, forward compatibility, and good modelling practices.
• Influence engineering standards across the squad, including testing strategy, CI/CD improvements, and code quality practices.
• Collaboration
• Collaborate with product teams across the organisation to establish API contracts and deliver features.
• Partner with Platform, Data Engineering, and Security teams to ensure APIs, events, and data flows are compliant, secure, and well-governed.
• Work with frontend and mobile engineers to define clear, well-documented APIs (OpenAPI/Swagger).
• Leadership & Mentorship
• Participate in architectural discussions, design reviews, and incident retrospectives, bringing strong backend expertise.
• What are we looking for? 🔎
• Technical Fundamentals
• Experience building high-performance backend systems with Java and Spring Boot
• Solid understanding of event-driven architecture (EDA) and distributed system principles
• Practical experience with messaging systems (e.g., Google Cloud Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, or similar)
• Experience working with NoSQL databases, ideally MongoDB Atlas
• Comfortable working with and supporting production services in cloud environments
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines (CircleCI, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc.)
• Ways of Working
• Experience working in a fast-paced agile environment, with a focus on flow efficiency, reducing WIP, and getting stories to Done
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills
• Bonus Points! ⭐
• Experience mentoring engineers, fostering growth and supporting good engineering practices.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Experience with Keycloak or other identity/auth frameworks
• Experience with observability tooling (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus)
• Even if you don't meet all of the requirements for this role, we encourage you to apply! We are looking for talented and passionate individuals who are eager to learn and grow. We also offer a variety of other roles, so please check out our careers page to see if there is something else that might be a good fit for you.
• Our interview process
• ✌ Benifex understands the need to have a fast and efficient process, the below will all be completed in the shortest time possible.
• 📞 Initial informal call with the Talent team
• ⏳ Interview with our Engineering Manager 30 min
• 🧪 Technical Task
• 🔎 Technical Interview - 60 min
• 🤩 Final interview with VP of Engineering - 30-45 min
• We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
• We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcome and respected. We believe that diversity and inclusion are essential to our success, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
• We are a proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme.
• If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage during the recruitment process, please let us know with your application.