Java Backend Engineer | AI-Driven Microservices

EROAD; Auckland; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and benefits

AI tooling support

On-call rotation compensation

Job summary

EROAD, a Kiwi fleet-management technology company, is seeking an intermediate Software Engineer to join its Java engineering team in Albany. You will own the backend features end to end, designing with security, scalability and testability from the start.

You will build microservices and RESTful APIs for a cloud-native SaaS platform, work with AI coding tools, review AI output before merge, and help ensure robust automated testing and on-call readiness.

Qualifications

• Production experience with Java in backend systems.
• Experience using AI coding tools or agents in engineering work, including reviewing and correcting AI-generated output before merge.
• Experience with AWS is preferred for this Java and Spring stack, though equivalent cloud-native experience on another platform is fine if your Java depth is strong.
• Microservice architecture and RESTful API design experience.
• Experience with MongoDB, PostgreSQL or SQL Server.
• Automated testing design and implementation across unit, component and integration levels.
• Git experience, including trunk-based development and CI/CD.
• Docker and containerisation experience.
• Basic monitoring, alerting and observability experience.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve microservices and RESTful APIs for a cloud-native, event-driven SaaS platform.
• Decompose engineering tasks into work suited to AI agents versus work that needs human judgement.
• Review and correct AI-generated code before it merges, catching failure modes before they reach production.
• Design and implement automated tests across unit, component and integration levels.Take part in an on-call rotation, compensated per EROAD policy.
• Report to the Chapter Lead as part of a collaborative engineering team.

Skills

Java backend

AI coding tools

RESTful APIs

Microservices

CI/CD

Git

Tools

Docker

AWS

MongoDB

PostgreSQL

SQL Server

Spring

Job description

EROAD, a Kiwi fleet-management technology company, is seeking an intermediate Software Engineer to join its Java engineering team in Albany. You will own the backend features end to end, designing with security, scalability and testability from the start.

You will build microservices and RESTful APIs for a cloud-native SaaS platform, work with AI coding tools, review AI output before merge, and help ensure robust automated testing and on-call readiness.