Senior Java Backend Engineer - Remote, High-Scale

Just Eat Takeaway.com; United States; Remote; USD 102,000 - 128,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Skip spend per month

Generous PTO with buy/sell option

Parental leave support

Flexible medical & dental insurance

Job summary

Just Eat Takeaway.com is seeking a Senior Java Developer to own backend services powering logistics calculations. You’ll architect, develop, and operate core services at scale, spanning API design to deployment and observability.

The role emphasizes Java mastery, distributed systems, and cloud-native patterns, with opportunities to mentor and influence architectural direction in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on experience architecting and building scalable, high-performance backend applications.
• Strong understanding of RESTful web services and API design.

Responsibilities

• Maintain existing and develop new microservices using Java 21.
• Extend infrastructure resources on AWS using Terraform.
• Design, build, and maintain high-performance backend services and APIs.
• Collaborate with Product, QE, and Data teams to ship high-quality releases.
• Own features from design through deployment and monitoring.
• Review peers' code and mentor team members.
• Participate in paid on-call rotation.

Skills

Java

Backend engineering

RESTful services

Distributed systems

Design patterns

DDD

Cloud architecture

Spark/Quarkus

Git

Code review

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Kubernetes

Kafka

SQS

RabbitMQ

MySQL

Job description

Just Eat Takeaway.com is seeking a Senior Java Developer to own backend services powering logistics calculations. You’ll architect, develop, and operate core services at scale, spanning API design to deployment and observability.

The role emphasizes Java mastery, distributed systems, and cloud-native patterns, with opportunities to mentor and influence architectural direction in a fast-paced environment.