Senior Backend Engineer

The Job in short

To design and develop, as a member of one of the platform teams, the core of Backbase’s AI Driven Process Automation Platform (BPO).   

Meet the job

This role is part of a Backbase product team in R&D BPO Value Stream. It is a multidisciplinary team of experienced and highly skilled software engineers and QA engineers. As part of the team, you will contribute to new and existing functionalities, proof of concepts, and technical improvements that will be implemented in the Event Driven Architecture of the new BPO Platform. Your autonomous team is responsible for the entire software development life cycle of the BPO Platform: from idea to release.

We use agile methods in order to deliver new product increments through short cadences by closely cooperating with other value streams as well as customers. You are expected to take ownership of what you build and proactively collaborate with architects, QA engineers and other team members to ensure implementation is done according to our technical vision and best practices.
Backbase provides a modern software solution developed in microservices and event driven architecture, ensuring financial institutions can build on the top of cutting-edge technology. As such, many modern principles have been adopted such as continuous integration and delivery. We have also adopted Agile practices that contribute to rapid delivery, with decisions being driven out of the team with autonomy rather than top down.

The underlying technology runs on the best of breed technology available today such as Spring Boot, Netflix OSS, coupled with our own in-house libraries to ensure consistent delivery to a highly regulated banking market. Our technology drives solutions in a variety of ways for customers, from cloud native, globally scaled deployments to on-premise managed application servers, demanding smart thinking and innovative solutions from our people.

How about you

● You have a solid background in software development including software design;

●You have recent experience with solution design of software components;
● You are able to communicate clearly and confidently across all levels to get buy-ins from technical stakeholders as well as from your team members;
● Experience in the banking domain or Fintech products will be considered an advantage;
● You have excellent communication skills in English, spoken and written;
● You have experience with Java, Spring, Maven, CI and CD;
● You have experience with microservices (Netflix OSS is a plus);
● Cloud and traditional application servers (WebSphere, JBoss, …);
● Experience with database modeling;
● You have experience with non-functionals such as security, performance, scalability etc.;
● Being a Full Stack developer with Angular experience is welcome;
● You have a solid understanding of Enterprise Integration Patterns;

● Experience with Event Driven Architecture, Event Sourcing and/or Business Process Management/Process Orchestration is a big plus.