Senior Java Backend Architect – AI‑Driven Microservices

A.S.Adventure; Antwerpen; Sur place; EUR 70 000 - 95 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Company car

Meal vouchers

Health insurance

Group insurance

Hospitalisation insurance

Additional holidays

Staff discount

Résumé du poste

A.S.Adventure in Antwerp seeks an experienced backend engineer to design and implement scalable Java backends. You will own key backend features, mentor peers, and collaborate across product teams to deliver robust microservices and REST APIs.

The role emphasizes secure-by-design practices and AI integration. We welcome candidates with 5–7+ years of backend experience, strong Java/Spring expertise, and a track record of building scalable systems in a cloud environment.

Qualifications

• 5-7+ years of backend software development experience.
• Deep expertise with Java frameworks such as Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Hibernate.
• Extensive experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra).
• Understanding of HTTP/REST and web security principles.
• Proficiency with IDEs and build tools (IntelliJ IDEA, Maven) and VCS (Bitbucket).
• Experience designing APIs, microservices architecture and async AWS communication.
• Testing frameworks like JUnit and Mockito; containerization with Docker in cloud-native setups.
• Hands-on AI knowledge: integrating LLM APIs and AI inference endpoints, GDPR-compliant data handling.

Responsabilités

• Design and implement complex backend services, APIs, and integrations in line with architecture standards.
• Lead and own key backend features and cross-team initiatives end-to-end, from design through production, ensuring operational readiness.
• Set and uphold code-quality expectations, championing clean code, test coverage, and performance across the services we own.
• Apply secure-by-design and privacy-by-design principles, and ensure logging, monitoring, and alerting are fit for production and compliance.
• Drive refactoring, technical debt reduction, and incremental modernisation, and support incident diagnosis and root-cause follow-up.
• Mentor mid-level and junior backend engineers through code reviews, pairing, and design discussions, acting as a technical role model.
• Collaborate closely with frontend, QA, DevOps, data, and product teams, translating technical trade-offs into clear options for stakeholders.
• Bring hands-on AI knowledge to the role: integrating LLM APIs and AI inference endpoints into backend services, applying responsible GDPR-compliant data handling.

Connaissances

Java

Spring Boot

Spring MVC

Hibernate

REST APIs

Microservices

SQL

NoSQL

Docker

AWS

AI integration

Outils

IntelliJ IDEA

Maven

Bitbucket

Docker

AWS

Description du poste

A.S.Adventure in Antwerp seeks an experienced backend engineer to design and implement scalable Java backends. You will own key backend features, mentor peers, and collaborate across product teams to deliver robust microservices and REST APIs.

The role emphasizes secure-by-design practices and AI integration. We welcome candidates with 5–7+ years of backend experience, strong Java/Spring expertise, and a track record of building scalable systems in a cloud environment.