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Senior/Lead Backend Java Engineer

1 month ago
Latin America
Full-time
Lead
Backend Engineer
Software Development
Agile AWS Git GraphQL gRPC Hibernate Java Kafka Microservices MySQL REST API SOAP Spring Spring Boot SQL
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AssureSoft

AssureSoft

AssureSoft specializes in providing comprehensive nearshore software application development services, leveraging expert developers and QA engineers to deliver tailored solutions that enhance digital projects through seamless functionality and engaging...

Internet Software & Services
51-250
Founded 2006
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Description

  • Take end-to-end technical ownership of significant backend systems, features, and integrations.
  • Translate ambiguous business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
  • Lead technical design discussions and influence architecture, frameworks, APIs, data models, performance, and implementation decisions.
  • Identify technical risks early and propose solutions.
  • Balance short-term delivery needs with long-term maintainability and platform architecture.
  • Ensure the quality, reliability, and successful delivery of owned solutions.
  • Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and provide technical guidance.
  • Conduct code reviews and promote clean code, testing, documentation, and engineering best practices.
  • Design and implement scalable backend applications using Java and the Spring ecosystem.
  • Design and maintain REST APIs and integrations with internal and third-party systems.
  • Build and evolve microservices and distributed backend systems.
  • Optimize database structures and queries for performance and scalability.
  • Troubleshoot production issues and drive root-cause analysis to permanent resolution.
  • Use AI-assisted development tools to accelerate implementation, debugging, testing, and refactoring while validating output.
  • Collaborate with product, business, engineering, and technical leadership to shape technical solutions and communicate tradeoffs.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with substantial backend development experience.
  • Advanced Java knowledge, including core Java, object-oriented programming, concurrency, collections, exception handling, and application performance.
  • Strong hands-on experience with Spring / Spring Boot.
  • Experience designing and building microservices and distributed backend systems.
  • Strong experience designing and maintaining REST APIs and third-party integrations.
  • Strong relational database knowledge, including schema design, SQL, query optimization, and performance considerations.
  • MySQL experience is preferred.
  • Experience with ORM technologies such as JPA/Hibernate or equivalent.
  • Experience with Git and modern software development practices.
  • Experience with automated testing and code-quality practices.
  • Strong hands-on experience with AI code assistants like Claude Code and Codex.
  • Experience working in Agile development environments.
  • Practical cloud experience, preferably AWS.
  • Strong debugging, troubleshooting, production-support, and root-cause-analysis capabilities.
  • Experience personally owning a complex project, system, or major feature from definition through delivery.
  • Experience making or driving significant technical or architectural decisions.
  • Experience mentoring another engineer through feedback or technical guidance.
  • Experience handling ambiguous requirements and independently determining next steps.
  • Experience working directly with business or product stakeholders to shape technical solutions.
  • Experience building or operating high-volume transactional systems (preferred).
  • Experience with event-driven architecture, Kafka, asynchronous processing, or high-volume data pipelines (preferred).
  • Experience with e-commerce, order management, inventory, logistics, payments, or shipping integrations (preferred).
  • Experience with SOAP, GraphQL, or gRPC (preferred).
  • Experience with SAP Commerce (Hybris) is beneficial but not required.
  • Experience working across web and mobile platform ecosystems (preferred).
  • Experience designing systems for high availability, resilience, and scalability (preferred).
  • Experience with observability, monitoring, and production performance analysis (preferred).

Benefits

  • Remote work (#LI-REMOTE).
  • English scholarships for an external institute.
  • English classes with company teachers.
  • State-of-the-art tools and resources.
  • Certifications for professional growth.
  • Recreation and leisure activities.
  • Compliance with local regulations and labor rights.
  • Great Place To Work certification.

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