Remote Java Backend Engineer - Shipping Platform

Mercury Business Services Inc.; Fatih, Çankaya, Konak; Remote; TRY 3,440,000 - 5,405,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary (USD)

Remote work in Turkey hours

Private health insurance for you and a

20 days paid holidays

Birthdays off

Job summary

Mercury Teknoloji A.Ş. in Türkiye is building a state-of-the-art shipping platform. We seek a Java Software Engineer (Backend) to design, implement, and maintain scalable microservices and APIs powering Mercury's product initiatives from conception to launch.

You will collaborate with teams across the US, Europe, and Asia, mentor peers, and help optimize performance, observability, and deployment pipelines. Proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Kafka, and PostgreSQL is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in software-focused engineering such as Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering.
• 4-7 years of backend Java experience, with at least 3+ years on version 9+.
• Strong Java fundamentals and core APIs.
• 2+ years with Spring Boot / Spring; proficiency with Spring Data, Hibernate, and JPA.
• Experience with unit testing, TDD, code reviews, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with Git and distributed version control systems.
• Knowledge of RESTful API design and microservices architecture.
• Experience with Kafka, PostgreSQL, OAuth/JWT, and backend security concepts.
• Excellence in problem solving, teamwork, and customer-focused delivery.

Responsibilities

• Design, document, code, maintain, refactor, and test backend components of the shipping platform.
• Build scalable, secure APIs and microservices with a focus on usability and reliability.
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, and DevOps to ensure robust deployment pipelines.
• Contribute to observability through logging, metrics, and tracing, and support testing strategies.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to best-practice standards across production teams.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Hibernate

JPA

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Git

REST API

Microservices

OAuth/JWT

Linux

CI/CD

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Software/Computer Engineering

Tools

Spring Data

Hibernate

Kubernetes

Docker

Git

Job description

Mercury Teknoloji A.Ş. in Türkiye is building a state-of-the-art shipping platform. We seek a Java Software Engineer (Backend) to design, implement, and maintain scalable microservices and APIs powering Mercury's product initiatives from conception to launch.

You will collaborate with teams across the US, Europe, and Asia, mentor peers, and help optimize performance, observability, and deployment pipelines. Proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Kafka, and PostgreSQL is essential.