Backend Engineer/ Backend Lead

Start-date: ASAP

Responsibilities:

• Design and build scalable REST APIs for the platform and other microservices
• Collaborate with frontend team to decide how an API method should work

• Work with Product team to build innovative, robust, and easy-to-use features for our users

• Improve and optimise performance of infrastructure and database

• Write clean, human-readable code with unit tests

• Triage bugs and troubleshoot production issues

• Improve code quality and increase unit and end-to-end test coverage

• Mentor junior engineers when necessary (for Lead role)

• 3-5 year experience in Java with ​Spring Framework​​and ​Hibernate ORM​(>5 years for Lead role)
• Experience with Relational Databases and SQL

• Experience with API and Framework Design and third-party API integration
• Strong English command and communication skills, a positive attitude

• Self-​awareness and a desire to continually improve
• Strong team player

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related subject is preferred