Senior Java Backend Engineer - Telecoms Data & Microservices

Alexander Lyons Solutions; Dubai; On-site; AED 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Alexander Lyons Solutions is seeking an experienced Backend Developer with a telecoms background to design, build and run high-volume data services in a production environment. You will own end-to-end features from conception to reliable operation.

You’ll design services for large data volumes, work with telecoms signalling and media traffic, and ship clean, well-tested code within a peer-review culture, collaborating with cross-functional teams and customers.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Java (8+) as primary language.
• Telecoms experience with hands-on knowledge of 3GPP standards and SIP/RTP protocols.
• Solid experience across relational (SQL) and NoSQL databases.
• Proven track record building distributed, microservice-based and event-driven systems.
• Strong grasp of architecture, design patterns and trade-offs.
• Hands-on Docker, Linux and command-line proficiency.
• Observability experience with Prometheus and Grafana.
• Understanding of Mechanical Sympathy and working knowledge of low-level network programming.

Responsibilities

• Design and build services that process and store large volumes of data, including telecoms signalling and media traffic, choosing the right storage technology for each job
• Maintain and improve existing services for performance, stability and data integrity
• Troubleshoot production issues across code, infrastructure, networks and databases
• Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code within a peer-review culture
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, customers and end users

Skills

Java

Telecoms experience (3GPP, SIP/RTP)

SQL & NoSQL databases

Distributed microservices

Architecture & design patterns

Low-level network programming

Code quality & peer review

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Linux

Prometheus

Grafana

Spring Boot

Kafka

RabbitMQ

NSQ

ActiveMQ

MongoDB

Elasticsearch

Spark

Iceberg

S3 storage

Ansible

Python

Job description

Alexander Lyons Solutions is seeking an experienced Backend Developer with a telecoms background to design, build and run high-volume data services in a production environment. You will own end-to-end features from conception to reliable operation.

You’ll design services for large data volumes, work with telecoms signalling and media traffic, and ship clean, well-tested code within a peer-review culture, collaborating with cross-functional teams and customers.