Backend Engineer

About Delivery Hero:
As the world’s leading local delivery platform, our mission is to deliver an amazing experience, fast, easy, and to your door. We operate in over 70+ countries worldwide, powered by tech but driven by people. As one of Europe’s largest tech platforms, we enable ambitious talent to deliver solutions that create impact within our ecosystem. We move fast, take action and adapt. No matter where you’re from or what you believe in, we build, we deliver, we lead. We are Delivery Hero.
Job Description:
- Design, develop, and maintain backend services using Java and Spring Boot framework.
- Collaborate with front-end developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to deliver scalable and efficient backend solutions.
- Implement and manage databases, ensuring data integrity and security.
- Develop RESTful APIs to support various front-end and mobile applications.
- Ensure high performance and responsiveness of applications.
- Conduct code reviews, write unit tests, and maintain documentation for backend services.
- Troubleshoot and debug applications to optimize performance.
- Participate in agile development processes and contribute to team improvements.
- Work closely with product managers and other developers towards the completion of development assigned features.
- Continuously find ways to improve and optimize the architecture, code, and processes of our Backend applications.
- The Employee, as per business needs, may be required to undertake any other such duties as may be assigned in line with the employee’s position, skills, and capabilities.
Requirements:
- Minimum 3 years of working experience in a similar role
- Good knowledge of design patterns, asynchronous data flows, event driven systems
- Experience designing and building high availability, high scalability RESTFul APIs
- Ability to investigate critical issues of the system, and to propose and implement the solution
- Great team player, also have the ability to work independently with minimum supervision
Experience / Knowledge in the following area would be a plus point:
❖ Mobile payments / m-Commerce
❖ Commerce-based applications such as ERP, Accounting, Point of Sale, e-Commerce, Loyalty & Redemption systems, etc.
- Must be proficient in English (written and spoken)
- Experience in development best practices including Agile development, peer code reviews, and unit testing
- Able to communicate clearly, especially in speaking. We have an environment where team members will work remotely.
Desired Tech Stack:
- Java: Proficiency in Java programming, with a strong understanding of object-oriented principles.
- Spring Boot: Extensive experience with the Spring Boot framework for building microservices and web applications.
- RESTful APIs: Expertise in designing and implementing RESTful services.
- Databases: Experience with relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB).
- Hibernate/JPA: Knowledge of Hibernate ORM and Java Persistence API for database interaction.
- Security: Understanding security principles and practices, including OAuth2 and JWT.
- Testing: Proficiency in writing unit and integration tests using JUnit, Mockito, or similar frameworks.
- Version Control: Experience with version control systems, particularly Git.
- Build Tools: Familiarity with build tools such as Maven or Gradle.
- Cloud Platforms: Experience with cloud services (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) is a plus.
- Containerization: Knowledge of containerisation technologies like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes is advantageous.
Nice to Have:
- Experience with message brokers (e.g., RabbitMQ, Kafka).
- Knowledge of DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
- Contribution to open-source projects or active participation in developer communities.
- Having worked on large-scale event-driven applications
Why Join Delivery Hero?
At Delivery Hero, we believe diversity and inclusion are key to creating not only an exciting product, but also an amazing customer and employee experience. Fostering this starts with hiring -- therefore we do not discriminate on the basis of racial identities, religious beliefs, color, national origin, gender identities or expressions, sexual orientations, age, marital or disability statuses, or any other aspect that makes you, you. Just be yourself and we can’t wait to see what value you bring to the role. We're as interested in your character as we are in your talent.

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