Senior Backend Engineer

Develocity is a first-of-its-kind product built for large software teams. It provides comprehensive observability, build and test acceleration technologies, and rapid troubleshooting features for Apache Maven, Android, Bazel, sbt, npm, Python, and Gradle Build Tool. Develocity comprises several facets, including large-volume data ingestion and processing, complex data analysis and visualization, and distributed caching and execution systems. 

Top companies like Netflix, LinkedIn, ASML, Airbnb, Microsoft, Nasdaq, and SAP use Develocity to deliver critical software faster at scale. We regularly collaborate with these and other customers to make continuous improvements to our products.We also partner with the Apache Software Foundation, the Micronaut Foundation, and other OSS projects—including Spring, Quarkus, Kotlin Compiler, JUnit, AndroidX, and more—to bring Develocity’s benefits to the OSS Community.

Who You Are

We’re seeking a Senior Backend Engineer with a demonstrated ability to efficiently deliver and maintain robust and useful software-based solutions as part of a collaborative team. Our ideal candidate has a successful record of delivering testable, evolvable, and scalable back-end architectures to production. While not necessarily build experts, they do exhibit a deep understanding and interest in the automation domain and in developer productivity. They thrive on challenging development and integration problems, understand the nuances of performance and memory optimization, possess and can capably articulate strong opinions, and feel comfortable collaborating with a distributed team.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, deliver, and maintain Develocity features
• Solve technical problems that have large scope, complexity, and business impact
• Effectively manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
• Assist clients both during trials and in production
• Contribute to process changes that improve the team’s velocity and efficiency
• Participate in Develocity releases, in collaboration with the entire engineering team

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software development experience
• In-depth experience with Java and the JVM
• Experience leading complex features end-to-end and cross-team
• Proficient communicator in English, both verbal and written 
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with excellent organizational skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing and building fault-tolerant, distributed systems
• Experience building and scaling highly-available systems
• Experience working with AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes
• Experience automating the software build and delivery process
• Experience working on developer tools
• Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with effective communication skills
• Interest and ability to learn new software development skills and techniques

What We Offer

• Opportunity to work on a widely-used product with a clear vision for the future
• Contribute to leading solutions in the new industry of Developer Productivity Engineering
• Close customer interaction with engineers from leading tech organizations
• An automation-focused, test-driven engineering culture
• Close collaboration with experienced and dedicated peer engineers
• Opportunities for growth in technical and leadership responsibilities
• In-person meetings, such as our annual company offsite and team meetings
• Work from home in a remote-first environment 
• Competitive salaries and equity grants

Benefits & Perks

• Learning & development: We offer a $1,000 annual learning and development stipend and a monthly meeting-free day dedicated to learning.
• Home office stipend: We offer a $1,500 home office stipend to make sure you’re comfortably equipped to work remotely.
• Volunteer day: We offer up to 8 hours of paid time each year for team members to give back to their local communities.
• Gradle World Meeting: We gather once a year for a week of in-person meetings and team-building events (at a very cool global “destination” venue).
• International benefits: We provide benefits that are tailored to your country of work.
• Competitive salary / Stock options: We offer competitive salaries and company stock option plans to all team members.

Location

• Remote, Europe-friendly timezone, with working conditions allowing seamless collaboration with your colleagues through email, chat, and video conferencing

How to Apply

The following is required with your application:

• Attach your Resume/CV and answer the required fields below
• Create a Build Scan® for any OSS project and tag it with backend-engineer

Next Steps

After applying, familiarize yourself with the Develocity hiring process to understand the next steps.

Who We Are

We’re a team of committed and skilled software engineers, product designers, sales professionals, and marketing experts. We’re passionate about developer productivity and we take pride in delivering products  that some of the world's leading software organizations rely on daily.

Our team is globally distributed but deeply connected. We value our interpersonal relationships as much as we value our achievements. We’re a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other and improve together, and we welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives.

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