Software Engineer II - Backend

New Relic; Barcelona; Presencial; EUR 60.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

New Relic is seeking a backend engineer to help shape the observability platform. You will build, maintain, and scale backend services, collaborating with product and experience teams to influence the distributed tracing roadmap.

You’ll work in an agile, DevOps environment, write production code, and explore AI-assisted tooling to accelerate development. English proficiency is required, and experience with Kotlin/Java/Go is highly valued.

Formación

• Experience with distributed systems and production scaling.
• Proficient in Kotlin, Java or Go and able to adapt to others.
• Knowledge of asynchronous programming: streams and message queues.
• Experience in Agile/DevOps environments with on-call rotations.
• Collaborative mindset, AI curiosity, and strong English.

Responsabilidades

• Build, maintain, and scale backend services and their tooling.
• Participate in architectural decisions with innovation and creativity.
• Collaborate with product and experience teams to influence the roadmap for distributed tracing.
• Create automation to improve scalability and deployment.
• Work in an Agile DevOps setup, contributing to on-call rotations.
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate development and code quality.

Conocimientos

Distributed systems

OOP languages

Asynchronous programming

Agile/DevOps

English proficiency

Descripción del empleo

We are a global team of innovators and pioneers dedicated to shaping the future of observability. At New Relic, we build an intelligent platform that empowers companies to thrive in an AI‑first world by giving them unparalleled insight into their complex systems. As we continue to expand our global footprint, we're looking for passionate people to join our mission.

Your opportunity

At New Relic, we provide our customers real‑time insights so they can innovate faster. Our software delivers insightful observability tools across different technologies and distributed systems, enabling software engineering teams to quickly identify, understand, and tackle issues, analyze performance, and get the most out of their software and infrastructure. This is a great opportunity to shape the future of observability, work on complex and interesting problems, and empower companies to thrive in an AI‑first world.

What You’ll Do

• Build, maintain, and scale backend services and their support tools
• Participate in architectural definitions with a high degree of innovation and creativity
• Work closely with product and experience teams to understand product specifications and influence the roadmap for the distributed tracing product at New Relic
• Create automation and tooling to make our systems more scalable and easier to deploy
• Work in an agile environment with a DevOps approach; teams build and maintain their own software, including participating in on‑call rotations
• Use AI tools to accelerate your development workflow, from writing and reviewing code to investigating production issues and helping the team adopt what works
• Embrace a culture of technical excellence and shared knowledge

This role requires

• Experience with distributed systems, concurrency, and scaling in production environments
• Strong experience writing software in OOP languages (Kotlin, Java, Go, etc.) and comfort adapting to different languages and frameworks
• Familiarity with asynchronous programming techniques: streams, event‑based flows, task queues, message queues
• Comfort working in a fast‑paced environment focused on delivering production code at a regular cadence using Agile techniques, tools, and methodologies
• A collaborative work style that includes colleagues in important decisions and leads to shared code ownership
• Adaptability in a rapidly changing industry, curiosity about AI and readiness to enhance your development workflow
• Proficiency in English

Bonus points if you have

• Contributions to open source projects
• Understanding of the value that build and test automation brings to development team efficiency and reliability, with passion for applying these techniques
• Experience with OpenTelemetry or related industry knowledge
• Experience in technical mentorship and supporting colleagues' skill development

Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Candidates are evaluated based on qualifications, regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, age, disability, neurodiversity, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or any other legally protected characteristics.