Senior Backend Engineer

Job Description We re looking for a top-tier Backend Engineer who has an eye for detail and is committed to delivering top-notch quality. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be responsible for crucial aspects of our product development and architecture. Working closely within a component team, alongside various specialists and business stakeholders, youll be pivotal in shaping our NextGen engineering culture. You will be a key player in guiding decisions regarding architecture, engineering and design decisions for scheduling domain within Setmore. Roles and responsibilities - Drive our efforts in designing Backend architecture. - Develop new features in our stack. - Write high-performing, clean code that is easy to test and maintain. - Perform regular code reviews. - Passionately pursue zero-defect code and support other developers to ensure that the deliverables exceed business expectations. - Assist in defining and refining our internal standards, practices, and processes to continuously improve our outcomes. - Champion performance, reliability, and security of our products and services across multiple devices and browsers. - Refactor existing codebase to improve readability, maintainability, and performance. - Act as a subject matter expert and support your colleagues. - Regularly collaborate with other engineers, designers, QAs, and PMs. - Create and maintain clear, accurate technical documentation to support effective collaboration and understanding across teams. - Identify, troubleshoot and promptly resolve backend issues and bugs to ensure a smooth user experience. Job requirements (Must have) - 7+ years of experience building scalable, maintainable and cross-platform web applications using modern technologies. - Excellent working knowledge of backend technologies including Java 17, Spring Boot, RESTEasy, Node.js, Express, and Redis. - Strong working knowledge of Design Patterns: REST API, and Messaging - Cloud Pub/Sub (or Kafka or Amazon equivalent). - Strong experience working on the API design and integration, API versioning and change management, and proficiency in API design best practices. - Proficiency in database technologies such as SQL and NoSQL databases, including strong understanding of ACID. - Experience or certification with GCP. - Committed to writing clean code and following software development best practices and standards. - Experience in working on high-traffic applications. - Experience with microservices architecture. - Experience in working with distributed systems. - Experience with CI/CD systems. - Experience dealing with performance and optimisation problems, particularly at large scale; must have a demonstrated ability to diagnose and prevent these problems. - Experience in working on at least a few different products with different objectives, limitations and challenges and flexibility in figuring out the best approach. - Experience in refactoring code to improve the design and structure of the product. - Ability to be an individual contributor and a proactive team player based on the requirements of the hour. - Ability to navigate the challenges and maximise the opportunities that arise while working in a remote environment with diverse global teams using various modes of communication and information sharing. - Committed to collaborating to solve problems together with empathy and creativity. - C1 level of English language proficiency (both written and verbal). - Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and / or organisational problems. - Experience in mentoring and training junior engineers. Good to have - Experience with GitHub Actions. - Experience with Gradle. - Knowledge of booking/ scheduling domain or experience working on related products. - Working experience in SaaS products. - Experience in building product from scratch.