Backend Engineer (Java / Spring Boot)

About the role

This is an overseas backend position reporting to the regional tech lead. You will investigate and fix production issues, provide day-to-day data queries and analysis, and contribute to the design and development of app backend modules. The mix of responsibilities shifts with business needs.

Key responsibilities

• Investigate production issues using logs, monitoring, tracing and data backtracking, ship fixes and write postmortems
• Design and build backend modules (Java / Spring Boot / MySQL / Redis), including API implementation, database design and maintenance of existing code
• Answer data requests from product, operations and customer support within data classification and access policies
• Perform routine releases, rollbacks and configuration changes, help maintain monitoring and alerting and take part in incident response
• Turn recurring investigations into SQL templates, runbooks and self-service tools
• Take part in code review, automated testing and release processes

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree or above; Computer Science / Software Engineering preferred
• 4+ years of Java backend development
• Hands-on production troubleshooting experience
• Rigorous, detail-oriented, committed to documented investigations

Required skills

• Java and Spring Boot, including Spring Cloud
• MySQL with multi-table joins, aggregations, window functions, indexing and execution plans
• Familiarity with Redis, Kafka / RocketMQ
• AWS basics (EC2, RDS, ElastiCache, S3, IAM), Docker, Kubernetes, Grafana / ELK, and CI/CD pipelines