Sr. Backend Engineer
Azerbaijan, AzerbaijanRemoteContract
AI Summary
A contract Senior Backend Engineer who develops and maintains a Java Spring-based platform, collaborates with a distributed engineering team, and contributes to architecture and design to ensure code quality, performance, and scalability.
About this role
Key Responsibilities
- Work on product features and impact customer experience
- Develop and maintain our Java Spring-based platform for a quickly scaling business
- Collaborate with a distributed team of highly skilled engineers
- Contribute to the architecture and design of our growing platform
- Ensure code quality, performance, and scalability
Requirements
- Strong Java experience (6+ years)
- Proficiency in Spring Framework (Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, MVC, Security), ORM frameworks (JPA/Hibernate)
- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases.
- AWS knowledge, including ECS, EC2, RDS, Lambda, S3, IAM, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, etc.
- DevOps skills in AWS provisioning, operations, and management.
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Ability to work independently in a remote setting.
- Fluent English and Russian communication skills.
- AI adoption
Nice to Have
- AWS Certification
- Team lead experience
What do we offer:
- Challenging tasks with a great opportunity to level up your skills
- 20 working days of paid vacation
- Working hours are 9:00–17:00 London time
Additional days off follow the UK holiday calendar - The team is international (Ukraine, Azerbaijan, South Africa).
Skills
AWSCloudFormationCloudWatchEC2ECSHibernateIAMJavaJPALambdaNoSQLRDSS3Spring BootSpring CloudSpring FrameworkSpring MVCSpring Security
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