Backend Software Engineer

Your new company
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Our client is dedicated to accelerating the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy. They assist their customers in powering economies and delivering the electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and an improved quality of life. Addressing the urgent need to build a more sustainable electric power system while improving the trajectory of climate change emissions are global priorities, and they take their responsibility seriously. Their mission is to continue electrifying the world while simultaneously working to help decarbonize it.

Your new role:

As a Backend Software Engineer you will:

• Design, develop, and maintain backend systems and services using Java, Spring Boot, and PostgreSQL within a microservices architecture to deliver cloud-based geospatial enterprise products.
• Design RESTful and GraphQL APIs to build scalable high-performance services.
• Optimize database queries and ensure data integrity and consistency in PostgreSQL.
• Develop geospatial data and queries using PostGIS in PostgreSQL.
• Build scalable and highly available distributed systems.
• Engage in technical discussions, participate in technical designs and present technical ideas through white boarding (or online equivalent).
• Evaluate technology options to meet business needs and make appropriate trade-offs.
• Maintain code quality through best practices, unit testing and code quality automation.
• Understand the whole product, its modules and the interrelationships between them while being an expert in the assigned component or module.
• Be an expert in assessing application performance and optimizing/improving it through design and best coding practices.
• Be an expert in core data structures as well as algorithms and have the ability to implement them using language of choice.
• Use excellent communication skills to work collaboratively and effectively with global teams in an Agile setting.
• Write clear, structured documentation for designs, ensuring developers and stakeholders can easily understand and maintain the codebase, along with product documentation to support end user integration.
• Evangelise how our technology solves customer problems from a technology and business perspective.

What you'll need to succeed:

• Strong experience in using back-end technologies such as Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, Kafka, MinIO, and Infinispan.
• Strong experience with PostgreSQL, including performance optimization, query tuning, and schema design in a microservice environment.
• Familiarity with PostGIS for working with geospatial data in PostgreSQL.
• Experience building distributed systems including on security, analytics, throttling, caching, and logging.
• Experience designing and building performant RESTful or GraphQL APIs which serve large volumes of data
• Experience designing and developing scalable enterprise software services and components using microservices, with a focus on handling large data volumes including both relational and NoSQL databases.
• Familiarity with geospatial data ingestion and management at scale (or similar connected network paradigm).

What you'll get in return:

• A comprehensive onboarding experience, including a dedicated 1-month ramp-up period.
• Flexible working hours and a clear hybrid working policy.
• Private medical insurance, with the option to extend coverage to family members.
• Competitive financial compensation for travel and on-site assignments.
• Access to personalized development and training programs throughout the year.
• Additional vacation days based on professional experience, plus an annual bonus.
• Annual performance-based salary review.
• A wide range of subscriptions, discounts, and vouchers (e.g., book lending services, fitness memberships, holiday gifts, daily meal vouchers).
• Extra days off for special occasions and family-related benefits.
• A wellbeing program that includes health-focused events, wellness apps, and confidential employee support services.