Senior Backend Engineer - APIs & Distributed Systems

parser; España; Híbrido; EUR 65.000 - 100.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Medical insurance

Competitive compensation

Global team

Descripción de la vacante

Parser, a boutique technology services firm, seeks a Senior Backend Engineer in Madrid with 5+ years of software engineering experience and strong JVM/Spring Boot expertise. You will design and evolve distributed backend systems powering end-to-end protection lifecycles, including eligibility, quoting, purchase, and servicing, while collaborating across product, compliance, finance, and partner teams.

The role emphasizes scalable APIs, cloud-native architectures, and a strong operational

Formación

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with a Bachelor’s degree, or 3+ years with a Master’s degree.
• Strong backend engineering experience building and operating production systems at scale.
• Proficiency in JVM-based technologies (Java/Kotlin) and Spring Boot.
• Experience designing APIs and integrations between distributed systems.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures in public or hybrid cloud environments.
• Strong understanding of microservices, asynchronous processing, and service-oriented architectures.
• Experience with SQL and/or NoSQL databases and scalable data access patterns.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, alerting, and production troubleshooting.
• Ability to design maintainable, modular, and testable systems with strong operational awareness.
• Understanding of software design principles, data structures, and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Experience working in agile engineering teams and collaborating across boundaries.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills in complex production environments.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly across engineering and business stakeholders.

Responsabilidades

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs using JVM technologies such as Java or Kotlin, and Spring Boot.
• Develop integration layers with third-party insurance and assurance providers.
• Build systems supporting the full Trip Protection lifecycle, including eligibility, quoting, purchase, servicing, claims, cancellations, and refunds.
• Design clean, maintainable, observable, and testable software using sound software engineering principles and design patterns.
• Create APIs and backend workflows consumed by multiple internal and external partners.
• Contribute to architecture and technical design discussions for moderately complex distributed systems.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, platform, compliance, finance, and partner teams.
• Support production systems through monitoring, debugging, troubleshooting, and operational improvements.
• Participate in code reviews and help guide engineering best practices across the team.
• Contribute to reporting, reconciliation, and operational data flows required to support the business.
• Work closely with stakeholders to deliver scalable platform capabilities across multiple markets and lines of business.

Conocimientos

Java

Kotlin

Spring Boot

API design

Cloud-native

Microservices

SQL

NoSQL

Observability

Agile teamwork

Communication

Debugging

Educación

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Master's degree (preferred)

Herramientas

JVM tooling

Descripción del empleo

Parser, a boutique technology services firm, seeks a Senior Backend Engineer in Madrid with 5+ years of software engineering experience and strong JVM/Spring Boot expertise. You will design and evolve distributed backend systems powering end-to-end protection lifecycles, including eligibility, quoting, purchase, and servicing, while collaborating across product, compliance, finance, and partner teams.

The role emphasizes scalable APIs, cloud-native architectures, and a strong operational