<h3>Roles and Responsibilities</h3><ul><li>Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services for web and mobile applications in a remote environment.</li><li>Develop and evolve application features using established software engineering standards and best practices.</li><li>Collaborate with product owners, architects, QA, and DevOps to deliver reliable releases on time.</li><li>Translate business requirements into technical solutions, including data flow, service boundaries, and API contracts.</li><li>Own the end-to-end lifecycle of backend components: from planning and implementation through testing, deployment, and monitoring.</li><li>Ensure services are secure, performant, and maintainable, aligned with organizational policies and coding guidelines.</li><li>Act as a technical mentor to engineers through reviews, pairing, documentation, and knowledge sharing.</li><li>Identify risks early and propose practical mitigation strategies for performance, reliability, and maintainability.</li></ul><h3>Required Qualifications</h3><ul><li>Demonstrated professional experience delivering production-grade backend systems.</li><li>Strong experience building server-side applications using modern Java-based frameworks.</li><li>Proven ability to design and implement RESTful services and maintain consistent API contracts.</li><li>Hands-on experience with Spring-based development practices and enterprise application patterns.</li><li>Solid understanding of application architecture, layering, dependency management, and modular design.</li><li>Experience integrating backend services with external systems, databases, and messaging or scheduling mechanisms.</li><li>Competence in writing automated tests and ensuring quality through CI-friendly workflows.</li><li>Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to interpret logs, metrics, and traces.</li><li>Excellent communication skills for remote collaboration, including clear updates and documentation.</li><li>Ability to contribute to technical design discussions and provide pragmatic engineering guidance.</li></ul><h3>Key Responsibilities</h3><ul><li>Implement backend features and enhancements while maintaining backward compatibility where required.</li><li>Develop RESTful endpoints, validate input/output, and enforce consistent error handling and response structures.</li><li>Build and maintain service-layer logic, including transaction handling and efficient data access patterns.</li><li>Optimize performance by addressing bottlenecks in code, queries, concurrency, and external calls.</li><li>Collaborate on system design: define APIs, service responsibilities, and integration approaches.</li><li>Ensure security best practices are applied, including safe handling of authentication/authorization concerns.</li><li>Write unit and integration tests, and support test execution in automated pipelines.</li><li>Review pull requests for correctness, readability, maintainability, and adherence to standards.</li><li>Monitor service behavior post-release and troubleshoot production issues with clear root-cause analysis.</li><li>Maintain technical documentation, including API documentation, design notes, and operational guidance.</li><li>Continuously improve engineering practices by suggesting refactors, patterns, and tooling enhancements.</li></ul>