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# backend developer

- **Company:** Freenow By Lyft
- **Location:** Barcelona, Spain
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Automation of Tests, Monitoring of Systems, Scrum Methodology, RabbitMQ, Cloud Services, Systems Integration, Web Applications, Datadog, Grafana, Spring-boot, Kotlin, Apache Kafka, Kibana, Restful APIs, Microservices
- **Published:** August 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.jobleads.com/es/job/e29965d195be4abcd280e4900209cac13

## About the Role

* Strong interest in Kotlin or Java
 * Experience with Spring Boot or similar frameworks, automated tests, and CI/CD tools
 * Familiarity with monitoring tools such as Grafana, Datadog, or Kibana
 * Knowledge of microservices architecture
 * Understanding of scalable web application principles, RESTful APIs, transactions, and resiliency
 * Familiarity with messaging using Kafka or RabbitMQ
 * Creativity and willingness to think outside the box
 * Communicative, proactive, and collaborative approach
 * Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
 * Nice to have: Experience with AWS or similar cloud service providers, familiarity with Agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban, hands-on experience integrating AI tools into engineering workflows.

## Description

* Own features from ideation and development through testing, deployment, and monitoring
 * Design and develop systems based on product requirements or refactorings
 * Maintain and improve existing systems by identifying bottlenecks, performance issues, and inefficient resource usage across database access, caching, and messaging
 * Collaborate with team members in an Agile environment and contribute to agile ceremonies
 * Stay current with technology trends and bring best practices to daily work
 * Write high-quality unit, integration, and functional automated tests
 * Proactively identify and remediate security risks in owned components
 * Review and approve code for the team's services and suggest better approaches
 * Participate in the engineering chapter or craft community by sharing learnings, best practices, and feedback
 * Participate in incident response and hotfixes
 * Keep documentation for owned systems up to date.


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