Senior Backend Engineer

OpenKrill; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Openkrill is seeking an experienced Backend Engineer to help build and scale our location marketing cloud SaaS solution. You will own design and delivery of distributed services and APIs while collaborating with product and cross-functional squads.

You’ll contribute high-quality, test-covered code in a fast-paced, remote-first environment. Strong JVM skills and cloud-native experience are required to drive robust architecture for enterprise clients.

Qualifications

• Experience designing scalable SaaS systems.
• Proven coding skills in JVM languages.

Responsibilities

• Lead impactful and innovative projects within our SaaS solution.
• Design and improve overall software architecture.
• Design, implement, and operate distributed services and APIs.
• Collaborate with team, squads, and product management stakeholders.
• Contribute scalable, high-quality code with automated tests.
• Evolve architecture and tech stack to ensure availability and maintainability; participate in code reviews and delivery improvements.

Skills

Kotlin

Groovy

Java

Scala

System design

SaaS

Containers

Microservices

Event-driven

REST APIs

Spring Boot

Hibernate

JUnit

AWS

Elasticsearch

MySQL

Docker

OpenAPI

Cloud computing

Agile methodologies

Tools

Spring Boot

Hibernate

JUnit

AWS

Elasticsearch

MySQL

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenAPI

Job description

About the Role

As a Backend Engineer, you will be working on our location marketing cloud solution (SaaS) and be a part of a highly-skilled agile team. As an experienced and team-minded professional, you will have a voice in our daily stand-ups that will be recognized and essential in our daily business to provide the best software solution to our enterprise clients and partners.

Your Responsibilities

• You will lead impactful and innovative projects within our SaaS solution
• You will play an active role in designing and improving our overall software architecture
• You will participate in the design, implementation, and execution of distributed services and APIs
• You will collaborate closely with your team, other squads, and stakeholders like product management
• You will contribute to the codebase with scalable, high-quality code and deliver solid coverage with automated tests
• You will ensure outstanding availability and maintainability of our platform by evolving our architecture and tech stack, participating in code reviews, refactoring, and improving integration and delivery systems

Your Profile

• You are highly proficient in Kotlin or Groovy, and proven coding skills with other JVM languages (such as Java or Scala) are considered a plus
• You have proven experience in designing scalable software systems, ideally a successful SaaS product
• You are familiar with containers, microservice architecture, event-driven architectures, cloud computing, and RESTful APIs
• You have deep knowledge of most of the popular technologies like Spring Boot, Hibernate, JUnit, AWS, Elastic Search, MySQL, Docker, or OpenAPI
• You are a self-motivated and independent engineer and bring creativity and the ambition to strive in a constructive and multicultural team
• You have experience with agile methodologies and automated testing
• You are a great team player with a positive and solution-oriented mindset
• You are fluent in English, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment