Senior Backend Engineer (Java)

Sonalake is a software partnering company that helps our clients realise their product roadmaps. Product design and engineering are at the heart of our business. Our engineering teams work with clients right across the stack; UX, UI design, frontend, backend, analytics, infrastructure, operations - and everything else that goes into delivering great products.

We thrive on variety and are highly adaptable. Our teams are exposed to domains as varied as telecom billing, ad tech, securities-based lending, travel tech analytics, and many more.

Innovation is central to our mission; anticipating future client needs, analysing emerging technologies and developing new products and services.

We are now seeking to grow our backend engineering/technical lead capability. That’s where you come in!

You will

• Develop rock solid efficient server-side applications
• Write clean, readable, well-commented, maintainable code
• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team with designers and other developers
• Contribute to product innovation and our open source projects
• Help evolve and improve our development standards, tooling, and processes

You may be a fit for this role if you

• Have a degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
• Have 5+ years hands-on software engineering experience using Java and popular Java frameworks (e.g. Spring, Hibernate)
• Have worked with Camunda 7
• Use agile process implementation and associated tooling
• Have organised automated testing, refactoring, source control management, continuous integration tooling
• Are comfortable with Linux/UNIX including command-line tools and scripting
• Have strong customer focus and ability to design solutions to meet their needs
• Know your way around Databases design and optimisation
• Know Amazon Web Services
• Can communicate fluently in English - both written and spoken
• Are based in Poland, Slovakia, or Hungary
• Have experience as a team lead and are able to lead cross-functional teams - this experience is a big plus

What's in it for you?

• Remote-first approach with many team-building activities. You can work from our offices in Dublin, Poznan or Bratislava, or work on a fully remote or hybrid basis. We believe in a healthy work-life balance
• Every Sonalaker gets a training budget and paid training days every year to upskill. This covers courses, training, books or conferences
• We’ve a flat organisational structure with an emphasis on open, honest communication. There are no silos, no hierarchies and no barriers
• We focus on innovation: we run projects to evaluate new frameworks, create tools for internal use, contribute to the open source community and research new ways to use existing products in new problem domains
• Indefinite period employment contract