Backend Java Engineer — Remote, Cloud‑Native & Scalable

Airship; France; Remote; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Medical insurance options

Flexible time off

Parental leave

Wellbeing programs

Remote work stipend

Job summary

Airship is building distributed, low-latency Java services on Google Cloud Platform to power cross‑channel customer experiences. You’ll design data schemas, scale APIs, and lead large releases with a pragmatic, collaborative team. Remote-first role with potential travel; strong focus on reliability, testing, and security.

Anglophone and Francophone collaboration encouraged across global teams. Join Airship to help shape scalable backend systems while leveraging AI-assisted development and a

Qualifications

• At least three years of experience designing, operating, and maintaining distributed systems.
• Professional fluency in spoken and written French.
• Experience with unit testing, code reviews, documentation, and Git-based version control.
• Experience leading significant releases or technical projects.
• Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous delivery practices.

Responsibilities

• Design data schemas and take ownership of data semantics.
• Maintain, improve, and scale Java APIs and distributed services.
• Investigate performance issues using server metrics, application data, and system behavior.
• Improve reliability, testability, and maintainability of backend systems.
• Partner with product and engineering teams on technical design and implementation.
• Help define technical standards across teams.
• Lead and own large-scale releases and technical projects.
• Use AI as a technical assistant to draft development plans and investigate problems or bugs.

Skills

Java

Distributed systems

Unit testing

Git version control

CI/CD

French language

Communication skills

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

SQL databases

NoSQL databases

Job description

Airship is building distributed, low-latency Java services on Google Cloud Platform to power cross‑channel customer experiences. You’ll design data schemas, scale APIs, and lead large releases with a pragmatic, collaborative team. Remote-first role with potential travel; strong focus on reliability, testing, and security.

Anglophone and Francophone collaboration encouraged across global teams. Join Airship to help shape scalable backend systems while leveraging AI-assisted development and a