Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end delivery of product features, from requirement analysis and technical design to development, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Design and build highly scalable, reliable, secure, and high-performance web applications and microservices.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, tech leads, QA engineers, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Drive technical design discussions and make architectural decisions that ensure scalability and maintainability.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code following engineering best practices.
• Perform code reviews and contribute to improving engineering standards, development processes, and system reliability.
• Analyse production issues, troubleshoot complex problems, and implement long-term solutions.
• Contribute to frontend development when required using React and modern web technologies.
• Participate actively in Agile/Scrum ceremonies and help drive continuous improvement within the team.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to building a strong engineering culture.

The core requirements for the job include the following:

Core Backend Skills:

• 4+ years of hands-on software development experience.
• Strong expertise in Java and object-orientated programming (OOP) principles.
• Extensive experience with Spring Boot and the Spring ecosystem.
• Strong understanding of microservices architecture and distributed systems.
• Experience with ORM frameworks such as Hibernate/JPA.
• Strong knowledge of REST APIs, API design principles, and backend best practices.
• Experience designing and optimising highly performant and scalable backend systems.

Database Expertise:

• Strong experience with relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Oracle.
• Experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB or DynamoDB.
• Strong understanding of database design, indexing, query optimisation, transactions, and performance tuning.

Frontend Skills:

• Working knowledge of React.js and modern JavaScript.
• Understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and frontend application architecture.
• Ability to contribute to UI development and collaborate effectively with frontend engineers.
• Aware of tools like Vite, Prettier, ESLint.

Engineering Practices:

• Experience with Agile/Scrum development methodologies.
• Strong understanding of software design patterns and engineering best practices.
• Experience with unit testing, integration testing, and quality assurance processes.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Skills

Backend Development, Full-Stack Development, Java, Other Software Development, Spring, Spring Boot