Java Backend Developer, 5 Years Experience

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🕒 May 8

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SEEKA Technologies - Hiring Now

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2017

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📋 Description

• Design, build, and maintain backend services using Java 20+ and Spring Boot • Develop clean, secure, versioned REST APIs for web, mobile, admin, partner, and AI systems • Review and improve Spring Boot application structure, dependency versions, embedded Tomcat configuration, startup behaviour, memory usage, and runtime performance • Improve service structure, startup behaviour, configuration, and deployment readiness • Refactor weak or unstable backend areas without breaking existing functionality • Review and improve backend code quality, error handling, validation, and performance • Investigate production issues across services, APIs, databases, queues, and cloud infrastructure • Investigate Spring/Tomcat-level issues such as slow startup, failed bean initialisation, blocked request threads, timeout misconfiguration, memory pressure, and unhealthy application states • Improve application startup, service health checks, logging, retries, timeout handling, and failure recovery • Identify unstable services, duplicated logic, poor configurations, and risky dependencies • Create clear root-cause analysis for recurring backend failures • Help define backend release standards and deployment readiness checks • Work with MongoDB, PostgreSQL/MySQL, Redis, and Elasticsearch • Optimise queries, indexes, schema design, and data access patterns • Support course matching, profile enrichment, search, recommendation, and application workflows • Improve backend data consistency between APIs, databases, search indexes, and AI outputs • Work confidently with AWS-backed backend environments, including services such as EKS/ECS, EC2, Lambda, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, and SQS/SNS, in collaboration with DevOps/Cloud engineers • Support containerised deployments using Docker and Kubernetes • Review backend infrastructure for cost, security, reliability, and scalability • Help reduce unnecessary cloud costs caused by inefficient services, oversized resources, or poor runtime behaviour • Partner with DevOps/Cloud engineers to improve deployment pipelines and runtime environments • Work with Kafka, RabbitMQ, or AWS SQS/SNS • Audit existing message/event flows and identify what is used, unused, broken, or risky • Build reliable asynchronous workflows for notifications, AI processing, applications, search updates, and partner integrations • Integrate third-party services such as payment gateways, email/SMS providers, CRMs, AI/ML APIs, and institution partner systems • Build secure backend services using Spring Security, OAuth2, JWT, SSO, and role-based access control • Work with identity systems such as Keycloak or similar • Improve API security, permission checks, secrets management, and environment variable hygiene • Identify risky public endpoints, exposed credentials, weak service-to-service access, and insecure configurations • Apply secure coding practices across backend services • Improve backend logging, metrics, alerts, tracing, and health dashboards • Work with tools such as CloudWatch, ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic, Datadog, Rollbar, or similar • Make it easier to detect user-impacting failures such as login issues, API failures, slow responses, and broken workflows • Help define what “healthy backend” means for Yuzee • Review pull requests and raise engineering quality across the team • Mentor junior and mid-level developers while maintaining delivery momentum • Break large technical problems into clear, shippable milestones • Write technical documentation that explains systems, decisions, risks, and fixes • Push back on poor technical decisions with evidence and better alternatives

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years backend engineering experience, with strong Java experience • 4+ years hands-on Spring Boot experience • Strong experience with: Java 17 / 21+ , Spring Boot , Spring Data , Spring Security , REST API design , Microservices , Docker , CI/CD , Git workflows and code reviews • Strong understanding of the Spring ecosystem, including Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Security, Spring Data, Spring configuration, profiles, dependency management, and application lifecycle • Practical understanding of embedded servlet containers such as Tomcat, including request handling, thread pools, connection limits, timeouts, and production tuning • Experience using Spring Boot Actuator or similar tools for health checks, metrics, readiness/liveness checks, and production diagnostics • Strong database experience with at least one relational database: PostgreSQL , MySQL , RDS • Production experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS • Strong understanding of: Authentication and authorisation , OAuth2 , JWT , SSO , Role-based access control • Solid testing experience: JUnit 5 , Mockito , Integration testing , API testing • Strong database optimisation ability — schema design, indexing, query tuning • Strong debugging and root-cause analysis ability • Ability to document backend systems, technical risks, architecture decisions, production incidents, and recommended fixes clearly • Strong written English for async collaboration.

🏖️ Benefits

• Completely remote or work from home (Very good if you also want to spend more time with family) • Friendly and understanding colleagues • Competitive salaries • You get to work in an agile work environment • You get to show your leadership skills • International working exposure • Company shares can be offered based on how successful with our products' launch • Company sponsored online classes or tech talks • Bonuses if you perform beyond expectation • Promotions towards better job roles possible after a certain period of time