Senior Java/Spring Boot Backend Engineer (Hybrid)

Placements24; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Health insurance

Learning & development

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and build scalable backend systems using Java and Spring Boot. You will own RESTful services, mentor junior engineers, and drive best practices across the team in a hybrid Randburg environment with remote flexibility.

You'll contribute to architecture, ensure code quality, perform testing, and collaborate with product, frontend, and QA to deliver robust solutions while staying current with evolving technologies and patterns.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 5–7 years of professional software development experience.
• Strong Java expertise with Spring Boot framework.
• Experience designing RESTful web services.
• Relational databases with PostgreSQL/MySQL and Hibernate ORM.
• Build tools: Maven or Gradle; Git version control.
• Experience with microservices architecture.
• Cloud familiarity: AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and deploy backend services using Java and Spring Boot.
• Provide technical leadership on complex projects.
• Write clean, well-documented, maintainable code.
• Develop and manage RESTful APIs.
• Collaborate with product managers, frontend developers, and QA engineers.
• Implement unit, integration, and end-to-end tests.
• Optimize performance, scalability, and security.
• Troubleshoot complex issues and bugs.
• Participate in code reviews and mentor junior engineers.
• Stay up-to-date with new technologies and industry trends.
• Contribute to tooling and development process improvements.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

REST APIs

Microservices

ORM Hibernate

Maven/Gradle

Git

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Hibernate

Maven/Gradle

Git

AWS/Azure/GCP

Docker

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and build scalable backend systems using Java and Spring Boot. You will own RESTful services, mentor junior engineers, and drive best practices across the team in a hybrid Randburg environment with remote flexibility.

You'll contribute to architecture, ensure code quality, perform testing, and collaborate with product, frontend, and QA to deliver robust solutions while staying current with evolving technologies and patterns.