The Senior Backend Engineer Java Scala will be responsible for the full lifecycle of backend services: from design and development through production reliability. In an era where AI can generate code, we value engineers who think critically, anticipate problems, and drive systems forward.

Responsibilities:

• Own features from design -> development -> testing -> deployment -> production support
• Take accountability for the reliability and performance of your services in production
• Drive technical decisions without waiting to be told what to do
• Design scalable, resilient distributed systems handling millions of daily transactions
• Make pragmatic trade-off decisions (consistency vs. availability, complexity vs. speed)
• Produce clear technical design documents and lead design reviews
• Evaluate build vs. buy decisions with data
• Build high-throughput, low-latency microservices
• Write clean, maintainable code, but more importantly, know when and what to build
• Write meaningful unit, integration, and contract tests, not just for coverage metrics
• Own E2E test strategy for your services
• Build confidence in deployments through automated validation
• Datadog – build dashboards, set meaningful alerts, track SLOs, analyze APM traces
• Splunk – log analysis, search queries, correlation across services for incident investigation
• *Analyze production incidents: read logs, trace requests, identify root cause under pressure
• Think about failure modes before they happen (circuit breakers, retries, fallbacks, graceful degradation)
• Participate in on-call rotations and drive blameless post-mortems
• Proactively identify capacity risks and performance bottlenecks
• Identify risks, tech debt, and performance bottlenecks before they become incidents
• Propose and drive improvements – don’t wait for a ticket