We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Java / Spring Boot) to strengthen their development team and contribute to the architecture and evolution of mission-critical backend services. As a senior team member, you will contribute to shaping the technical foundation of Europe’s digital future.
Key Responsibilities:
• Design the backend architecture and define how components such as user interfaces, internal tools, and external applications interact with the backend, with a focus on reliability, resilience, and recovery.
• Build services following microservices architecture principles and align with the Twelve-Factor App methodology for scalable, maintainable applications.
• Develop, optimize and maintain high-quality backend systems using Java, Spring Boot, and modern development practices.
• Contribute to solution architecture, applying patterns such as event-driven design, Saga, CQRS, and domain-driven design.
• Design secure, scalable APIs and support data model evolution.
• Model and manage data using relational databases, especially PostgreSQL, ensuring consistency, performance, and maintainability of the persistence layer.
• Actively participate in Agile ceremonies such as planning, estimation, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Lead technical design discussions and promote clean code, test-driven development, and automation.
• Contribute to system modeling activities using appropriate standards (e.g. UML, ArchiMate) to describe services, integrations, and data flows.
• Collaborate with product owners, business analysts, the service delivery manager, and the enterprise architect for planning activities and refining functional and non-functional requirements.
• Work closely with DevOps and Security teams to ensure compliance with best practices and relevant regulations (e.g. NIS2, GDPR).
• Provide mentorship to the team and share architectural and engineering expertise.
• Continuously develop technical skills through training, reading, knowledge sharing, and staying informed about emerging technologies.