Senior Backend Java Developer (remote)

At Appfire, we believe that great work happens when people get to choose how they work. After 20 years of creating software that empowers teams to break silos and collaborate seamlessly, we've learned that one size does not fit all. That’s why at Appfire, you choose. 

Choose to work where you thrive: Whether from home, in one of our offices, or while exploring the world, you decide where you’re most productive. From hardware and software to access to two decades of collective wisdom on working effectively in a remote-first company, we’ve got you covered.

Choose to balance your life without compromise: Plan your workday around your needs and what matters most to you. Enjoy flexible time off without the hassle of complicated approvals. From day one, we trust you to deliver quality work without sacrificing your personal life, hobbies, loved ones, and well-being.

Choose to grow on your terms: Take charge of your professional growth with access to online learning platforms, facilitated training, leadership programs, and internal hackathons. Collaborate with a global team to gain fresh perspectives. When you're ready for a new challenge, our internal mobility program is here to support your journey.

No one knows you better than you do. So join us and customize your experience. Choose how you want to work. Choose Appfire.

 

Job Purpose and Overview

We are looking for experienced Java developers to join our product team for BigPicture – one of the leading project management tools used by CEOs, directors, project managers and team leaders of over 12 000 companies worldwide.

How we work:

• 100% remote work (from Poland) - however, it is always open if you want to work from our modern Warsaw office
• In agile and lean we trust - we keep our Sprints effective, and our Scrum teams small and decisive in practices that suit them best
• Ownership - we want everyone on our team to feel empowered to grab the reins in their positions and help push the company forward
• Daily communication with our product owners and UX / UI researchers and designers - who make informed business decisions based on continuous users behaviour monitoring
• Short time to market - we have major feature release every month
• Startup atmosphere with direct informal communication with everyone at the company and with elastic working hours - all to keep you comfortable and simply happy to be with us - get to know the BigPicture team better here and here

What You Will Do

• Designing and implementing new functionalities for our products and maintaining existing ones
• Ensuring high code quality - through tests (unit, integration, e2e), code reviews and team brainstorming
• Working on features with product owners, UX / UI designers and frontend developers
• Sharing knowledge with other developers and helping them grow
• Technically supporting our customers (5-10% of your time)

Technical highlights:

• Add your value to complex yet well-designed application, having over 100 modules and fully-fledged Domain-Driven Design (ubiquitous language, aggregates, domain events etc.)
• Practice your craftsmanship in good design (clean code, SOLID, Inversion of Control) and in various architectures (hexagonal, event-driven, pipes&filters, modular monoliths, microservices and more)
• Thoroughly test what you build: with unit, integration and e2e tests (Spock, JUnit, Mockito, AssertJ, REST Assured, WireMock, Testcontainers, Cypress)
• Learn our advanced cloud (SaaS) architecture: serving thousands of tenants (multitenant architecture), continuously monitored and profiled (ELK, async-profiler), and with state of the art release process (feature flags, canary releases). We use AWS and GCP. Help us advance our cloud architecture further 
• Practice other cool approaches and tools like reactive programming, Event Sourcing, Apache Kafka or Redis
• Feel safe with our extensive CI process that automatically runs unit, integration, e2e, architecture, migration and performance tests on your commits
• And for all of you frontend lovers out there: it’s worth knowing that this is one of the largest and most ambitious Angular projects in Poland

What We Would Like to See

• Practical knowledge of design principles, design patterns and architectures - what problems they solve (& what introduce), how to implement them - see our take on DIP, DI and IoC (Javeloper), plus some of our OOP best practices (GeeCon)
• The inherent need for tidiness in the code - on module, package, class and method levels (both in production and test code) - see our approach to modularity (JDD)
• Experience in designing legible, sustainable and expandable solutions
• Established knowledge of Java, Spring, Hibernate / JPA, SQL DBs and REST
• Proficiency in your favourite IDE, in Git, Maven, Docker, Spock, JUnit, Mockito
• High problem-solving skills and hands-on approach (being eager to brainstorm, experiment and learn from mistakes)
• Willingness and determination for self-development and further education
• Good English skills (B2 or higher)

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of object-oriented programming, recently known as Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
• Established knowledge of the architecture of complex web solutions, ideally including cloud (SaaS) solutions - see how our on premise and cloud products are designed (Confitura)
• Experience in robust systems integrations: caching, concurrency & reactiveness, throttling, authorisation
• Practice in monitoring, profiling and optimising production systems
• Leadership skills: focus on efficient teamwork, mentoring & knowledge sharing, ensuring good atmosphere

How we will help you grow:

• Free access to 2 e-learning platforms
• Internal tech guilds that meet on a weekly basis for knowledge sharing
• Regular, internal, one-week long, fully-paid hackathons - to give you a chance to play with what currently drives you most
• Possibility to engage in mentor-mentee relationship with whoever other developer you find valuable to learn from
• Personal competency matrix to help you plan your growth path and then navigate through it
• Availability to take part in tech events sponsored by us – like Confitura, Devoxx, or Code Europe

What We Offer

• Every Appfire employee is eligible for company equity
• Remote work flexibility
• Private health insurance
• 25 working day of paid annual leave
• Reduced summer hours
• Flexible bank holidays policy: Allowing you to exchange a government-set public holiday for a more convenient time off.
• Annual sport allowance
• Work from home allowance: 50€ gross per month for 11 months a year (i.e Excluding Holidays)
• Training opportunities: Appfire provides different e-learning platforms to improve technical and non-technical knowledge.
• Conference attendance: Upon your manager’s approval.
• Team Annual Event
• Christmas holiday party
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About Appfire

A people-first approach to business

Since its inception, Appfire has been a remote-first company. With 800+ employees (who we call fireflies) across 27 countries, we foster an environment where everyone is respected. We invest in team members by ensuring they grow professionally and personally.

Watch Appfire's Co-founder and CEO Randall Ward talk about his people-first leadership philosophy: https://youtu.be/GXuChQzzowI

Making an impact

At Appfire, corporate social responsibility is driven by team members, family, friends, customers, and partners through Appfire Town. This program brings people together to generate a strong social impact in our local and global communities.

Our CEO believes being philanthropic is integral to operating our business and is not merely the result of our success. In 2015, Appfire joined the Pledge 1% network of organizations committed to philanthropy. Appfire has since grown our Pledge 1% program to include all four pledge types — product, profit, equity, and employee time. We were among the first to do this, and we’re proud that Pledge 1% is part of our evolution.

Our business

Appfire has been profitable since its inception, with best-in-class free cash flow margins relative to the broader SaaS universe. The company's mission to equip and connect every team so they can plan and deliver their best work has proven successful, producing consistent year-over-year (YoY) growth – with Appfire growing from $10M ARR in 2019 to $200M ARR in 2023. 

What’s our secret sauce?

1. We follow teams. We do our research and build software that solves real-life collaboration challenges while being easy to implement and a joy to use. We’re proud to support over 20,000 customers and growing, including 55% of the Fortune 500. From the entertainment delivered by Netflix to the devices crafted by Samsung, and Dell Technologies and the financial transactions handled by Visa, Edward Jones, and US Bank, Appfire’s technology is indispensable. Our products also play a pivotal role in streamlining operations and fostering innovation at companies like Tesla and significant institutions such as NASA, Boeing, and many more. 
2. We enhance. We don’t compete. Our software is designed to give developers, knowledge workers, and teams the ability to extend and get greater value from the platforms they’ve invested in and enjoy. So far, our solutions extend and enhance the capabilities offered by Atlassian, Microsoft, monday.com, and Salesforce. 
3. We build bridges and invest in our partners. Appfire's success is underscored by the fact that the company has no direct sales team and instead leverages its channel program as its primary path to market. Today, Appfire has a dedicated Channel team supporting 700+ channel partners.
4. We make security and privacy a priority, but we also keep it simple for our customers. We’ve achieved International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 27001 and ISO 27017 and System and Organization Controls (SOC) SOC 2, Type I and SOC 2, Type II certifications. In 2022, we launched our award-winning Appfire Trust Center, offering our customers, partners, and prospects the latest security, privacy, and compliance information, including pre-completed questionnaires (CAIQ, SIG, and VSA) with an accelerated NDA process and just one EULA to cover it all.

Market recognition

Appfire has been consistently recognized for company growth, culture, corporate social responsibility, and product excellence and has been included among the Deloitte Technology Fast 500, Inc. Best Workplaces, BuiltIn Best Places to Work, and Inc. 5000. Learn more about our accomplishments, which would not be possible without our team members, partners, and customers: https://appfire.com/awards.

Read about Appfire's continuous growth and mission to equip and connect every team so they can plan and deliver their best work: https://appfire.com/newsroom/Appfire-Exceeds-200M-in-ARR-Signaling-Growing-Demand