Senior Backend Software Engineer

Your Role

You’re a senior engineer who is well respected by your peers, and know how to lead effectively. You find joy in making a product that customers love. You love taking ownership over your work and can balance managing technical debt with improving the user’s experience / adding product features. You are interested in the newest technology and you’d like an environment where you can share your skills with like minded people on a no ego team. We’re a tech company at our core and we have an interesting domain we work in. And we want you to join us!

What You’ll Be Doing

• Product Development & Ownership – Contribute to the evolution of our core product, including modernising legacy components, adding new features, and helping shape long-term architectural direction.
• System Maintenance & Technical Improvements – Identify and reduce technical debt, improve performance and reliability, and participate in scaling decisions across our
• API Design & Delivery – Build and maintain secure, scalable RESTful APIs used by customers and partners. Ensure adherence to API standards, versioning practices, and monitoring instrumentation.
• Quality & Release Engineering – Play a key role in our release process by writing reliable tests, reviewing code rigorously, and contributing to CI/CD pipeline improvements.
• Mentorship & Technical Leadership – Support the growth of junior engineers through pairing, thoughtful code reviews, and informal coaching. Promote sound design principles and foster a culture of continuous technical learning.

What We Are Looking For

• 5+ years of software development experience in Java and/or Kotlin - OO design and associated design patterns.
• Proven experience building backend services and tools within web application ecosystems.
• Ability to act as a technical lead for small projects (typically up to 4 developers), offering architectural and design guidance.
• Strong data modelling skills with significant experience working with relational databases using SQL, ideally Hibernate.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Sharp logical reasoning skills and a habit of asking the right questions, with the ability to explain complex concepts clearly and succinctly.
• Bonus: Familiarity with networking concepts such as IP routing or MPLS.