Senior Back-End Engineer

Bizzabo; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Bizzabo is seeking a Back-End Developer to join their engineering team. The role involves working with a micro-services architecture using Java and Kotlin, focusing on scalability and high availability. Ideal candidates should have extensive experience in server-side development and familiarity with cloud technologies.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in server-side development.
• Proven experience with Java; Kotlin is an advantage.
• Experience with cloud-native technologies, such as Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Work in a cross-functional team to deliver value to customers.
• Focus on high availability, low latency, and scalability.
• Contribute to product quality through architecture planning and code review.

Skills

Java

Kotlin

Cloud-native technologies

Event streaming

Analytical abilities

Education

Computer science degree

Tools

Spring Boot

MySQL

Kubernetes

Kafka

Elasticsearch

Redis

Temporal

Job description

Are you passionate and curious about server architecture? Bizzabo is currently seeking a Back-End Developer to join our fantastic engineering team. Our architecture is built upon a micro-services based model, utilizing cloud infrastructure and orchestrated by Kubernetes. The backend services are written in Kotlin and Java using the Spring Boot framework. We rely on MySQL and Elasticsearch as our data stores, while leveraging Redis for high-performance data storage. We utilize Kafka for event streaming and Temporal for workflow orchestration within our system.

Bizzabo’s Event Experience Operating System is a modern, intuitive platform used by the world’s leading organizations to deliver immersive experiences and events at scale. Named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant and Forrester Wave for event technology, enterprises rely on Bizzabo to manage their entire event portfolio, regardless of format or size. Bizzabo is recognized by Newsweek as a 2024 Global Most Loved Workplace and as a 2024 Top Most Loved Workplaces for LGBTQ+ employees. Bizzabo was founded in 2011 by Boaz Katz, Alon Alroy, and Eran Ben-Shushan and is headquartered in New York and Tel Aviv.

Requirements

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

• Work in a cross-functional team to collaboratively deliver excellent value to customers by understanding their needs and challenging requirements.
• Be dedicated to product quality through architecture planning, code review, monitoring, and communication with customer-facing teams.
• Focus on high availability, low latency, and scalability.
• Contribute your analytical abilities and enthusiastically research new solutions to challenging problems.

WHAT YOU HAVE

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in server-side development.
• Proven experience with Java (Kotlin is an advantage).
• Familiarity with Spring Boot or the Spring framework.
• Experience with relational databases such as MySQL.
• Experience with cloud-native technologies, such as Kubernetes.
• Experience working with event streaming platforms such as Kafka.
• Proven record in designing, building, and maintaining large-scale distributed systems.
• Ability to learn and adopt new technologies.
• Computer science degree from a leading institute or equivalent experience.

WHAT WOULD BE A BONUS

• Experience with AWS infrastructure, including EC2, S3, RDS, and SQS.
• Experience with Elasticsearch.
• Familiarity with the Temporal.io platform.
• Experience with Kubernetes.