Senior Backend Engineer (Java)

• Impact: work on a product suite used by millions of people that improves employee experience and wellbeing.
• Scale: a big focus of our engineering teams is building features and services to support our customers globally.
• Autonomy: have an input into the product roadmap and technically lead features/services.
• Development: While new services are created in Java, you'll be upskilled in Go to help maintain existing services.
• Top 10 Employer, Sunday Times Best Places to Work Awards
• Work for a profitable, fast-growing market leader in the online reward and benefits space

Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship and require to people to be based in the UK or Ireland for this position, Our Product Engineering department is in an exciting phase of growth, and we are actively seeking Senior Backend Engineers who specialise in Java and Spring Boot., * Working with a small unit of a Product Manager and Engineers in the squad to understand priorities and requirements to deliver within the sprints

• Hands-on collaboration within the squad to analyse, refine, system design and deliver new Product features
• Working with the wider Backend Chapter and Principal Backend Engineer to architect the best solutions and strategy for the OneHub products
• Autonomy to evolve the current standards and increase the documentation across the Backend Chapter
• Using backend technologies including but not exclusively, Spring boot, Kubernetes, Java, MongoDB
• Architecting and building REST APIs on a distributed cloud solution

You'll be part of a team that follows the "Shape-Up" methodology, a development process pioneered by Basecamp. This approach involves building projects in focused cycles, allowing for more creativity and effective problem-solving.

You will collaborate closely with our Principal Backend Engineer to architect optimal solutions and strategies for our OneHub products. Your primary responsibility will be working with Java and Spring Boot to build REST API's within a cloud-based environment equipped with CI/CD pipelines.

You will have the autonomy and responsibility to uphold code quality, security, performance, and maintainability, adhering to development principles and best practices. We have a diverse team of engineers from various backgrounds. If you're passionate about learning and growing in a dynamic environment, we'd love to hear from you.

Stack: Java, Spring Boot, REST API's, MongoDB, Golang, Docker, Kubernetes, GCP., "Senior" level engineer, both in technical output (leading more complex features/services, technical decision making, owning critical services/projects) and impact on the wider team (mentoring, knowledge sharing, raising standards)

Passion for engineering and continuous learning

A pragmatic approach, someone with the ability to understand the big picture (business, product and tech), factor in all considerations and choose the best way forward

A mindset of taking ownership, identifying and solving problems, able to navigate complex challenges

Proven experience creating Java Spring Boot based services in a service-based architecture

Someone driven to learn Go and get hands-on experience coding with it

Experience working on cloud architecture and software built on REST API's with the ability to implement high quality code and deliver on time

Experience working within a fast-paced agile environment with the focus of reducing WIP and getting stories to "Done"

Good understanding of event-driven architecture (EDA) and programming principles

Experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB Atlas

Bonus points for:

• CircleCI or similar
• CI/CD tools
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Experience with Go
• Monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus and Grafana
• Knowledge of containerisation and Kubernetes
• Open source collaboration

£75,000-90,000 Tech setup of your choice (MacBook Pro or equivalent, monitors, etc.) £/€800 annual learning budget, plus two hours per week as 'Focus Fridays'. Flexible work - choose a working setup that works for you, our only ask is to see you once a quarter in our UK HQ ️ 25 days holiday plus your local bank holidays Your birthday off ️ Two half day wellbeing days Healthcare cash plan to cover the costs of day to day healthcare Employee Assistance Plan 24/7 365 support Income Protection (75%) and life assurance (4x salary) Pension scheme Enhanced parental leave package - 26 weeks fully paid maternity leave and 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave £50 monthly allowance to spend on whatever takes your fancy, your very own Benifex card will be topped up at the start of each month!