Senior Backend Engineer - Java/Spring Microservices

First Orion

Dubai

On-site

GBP 31,000 - 54,000

Full time

13 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary
Medical insurance
Paid time off
Flight allowance
Flexible working
Career growth

Job summary

First Orion is seeking a senior backend engineer to own core microservices across our platform, focusing on call treatment orchestration, brand data, analytics, and billing. You’ll work in a hexagonal, event-driven architecture and collaborate with engineering teams to develop scalable, reliable services.

This hands-on role requires strong Java 21 and Spring Boot experience, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Kafka, plus a proven ability to design, implement, test, and support production services in a

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of professional backend or software engineering experience.
  • Strong experience with Java 21.
  • Experience building services with Spring Boot.
  • Experience with Gradle using Kotlin DSL.
  • Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL.
  • Experience working with Redis and Kafka.
  • Understanding of microservice and event-driven architecture.
  • Experience designing, building, testing, and supporting production services.
  • Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
  • Ability to work effectively in a collaborative, distributed environment.

Responsibilities

  • Build, enhance, and own core microservices across the First Orion platform.
  • Develop services supporting call treatment orchestration, brand data, analytics, and billing.
  • Design and implement solutions using hexagonal and event-driven architecture patterns.
  • Build scalable, reliable backend services using Java and Spring Boot.
  • Work with relational databases, caching technologies, and event-streaming platforms.
  • Contribute to technical design decisions and help improve reliability and maintainability of services.
  • Troubleshoot issues and support services throughout the development lifecycle.
  • Collaborate with distributed engineering teams to deliver high-quality solutions.

Skills

Java 21
Spring Boot
Event-driven architecture
Hexagonal architecture
PostgreSQL
Redis
Kafka
Distributed systems
Problem solving
Communication

Tools

Gradle Kotlin DSL

Job description

First Orion is seeking a senior backend engineer to own core microservices across our platform, focusing on call treatment orchestration, brand data, analytics, and billing. You’ll work in a hexagonal, event-driven architecture and collaborate with engineering teams to develop scalable, reliable services.

This hands-on role requires strong Java 21 and Spring Boot experience, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Kafka, plus a proven ability to design, implement, test, and support production services in a

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