Senior Back-End Engineer, Java

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Remote People

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2018

👥 HR Tech

🎯 Recruiter

☁️ SaaS

💰 $1.3M Seed Round - RemotePeople on 2024-02

HR Tech • Recruitment • SaaS

Remote People is a global HR and workforce platform that helps companies recruit, employ, and incorporate talent in 150+ countries. The company offers Employer of Record (EOR) and Contractor of Record services, global payroll, benefits, immigration and visa support, local compliance and entity setup, in-house recruitment, and a centralized SaaS dashboard for managing hires and workforce operations. Remote People combines legal, payroll, and HR expertise with technology to simplify international hiring and workforce management.

📋 Description

• Design, develop and document fast, secure and easy-to-use APIs consumed by both front-end and back-end applications • Build effective integrations with other applications and third-party software • Own the entire implementation cycle from design to rollout • Leverage AI coding tools (e.g. Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) as a core part of your development workflow to accelerate implementation • Act as the quality gate on AI-assisted development: review, validate and refactor generated code to ensure it meets architecture, security and maintainability standards • Design and orchestrate lightweight automation and agent workflows to eliminate repetitive engineering tasks (test generation, data migrations, boilerplate, monitoring scripts) • Contribute to the squad's adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices and share learnings across the Back-End Chapter • Contribute to requirements review and work closely with Product Manager to design and plan new features • Participate in the Back-End Engineering Chapter and contribute to global architecture decisions

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of 7 years in a Software Development role • Strong architectural judgment and code quality ownership — the ability to design good systems, not just write good code • Solid command of Java and Spring Boot • Demonstrated, hands-on experience using AI coding assistants in a production engineering context — a practiced workflow, not just familiarity • Ability to critically evaluate AI-generated code for correctness, security, and maintainability • Experience designing and implementing micro-services • Knowledge of API design with REST, gRPC, GraphQL and API documentation with OpenAPI/Swagger • Experience with various data store, streaming and caching solutions (SQL and NoSQL databases, Redis, MQ, Kafka, Elasticsearch) • Ability to draw and document technical solutions prior to implementation • Ability to communicate effectively in a remote environment — clear written communication, reliable async collaboration

🏖️ Benefits

• A competitive salary • An asynchronous working environment • A "Remote-First" company environment (or Hybrid) - based on the nature of the job • The ability to work from abroad for a short period of time • Growth opportunities within the company • We provide all new joiners with the necessary hardware to ensure you have the tools you need to succeed from day one