Senior Software Engineer (Java)

Project – the aim you’ll have
Our client is a global HR-tech leader specializing in creating engaging employee experiences through a unified platform for benefits, rewards, wellbeing, and recognition. Operating across more than 100 countries and partnering with over 3,000 organizations, they enable employers to centralize and simplify the management of complex reward programs while ensuring compliance and scalability. Their platform empowers employees with personalized, mobile-first access to benefits and recognition tools, helping organizations foster stronger engagement, loyalty, and overall wellbeing. By combining technology, data insights, and consumer-grade user experience, our client transforms traditional benefits into meaningful experiences that attract, motivate, and retain talent on a global scale.

• Working with a small unit of a Product Manager and Engineers in the squad to understand priorities and requirements to deliver within the sprints
• Hands-on collaboration within the squad to analyse, refine, design and deliver new Product feature
• Working with the wider Backend Chapter and Principal Backend Engineer to architect the best solutions and strategy for the OneHub products
• Autonomy to evolve the current standards and increase the documentation across the Backend Chapter
• Using backend technologies including but not exclusively, Spring boot, Kubernetes, Java, MongoDB
• Architecting and building REST APIs on a distributed cloud solution

• “Senior” level engineer, both in technical output (leading more complex features/services, technical decision making) and impact on the wider team (mentoring, knowledge sharing, raising standards) · Passion for engineering and continuous learning
• A pragmatic approach, someone with the ability to understand the big picture (business, product and tech), factor in all considerations and choose the best way forward
• A mindset of taking ownership, identifying and solving problems, able to navigate complex challenges.
• Proven experience creating Java Spring Boot based services in a service-based architecture
• Experience working on cloud architecture and software built on REST API’s with the ability to implement high quality code and deliver on time
• Experience working within a fast-paced agile environment with the focus of reducing WIP and getting stories to “Done”
• Good understanding of event-driven architecture (EDA) and programming principles · Experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB Atlas

• CircleCI or similar CI/CD tools
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) · Okta
• Monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus and Grafana
• Knowledge of containerisation and Kubernetes · Open source collaboration