Senior Backend Engineer
Description For Senior Backend Engineer
Gradle is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join their team working on Develocity, a pioneering product that optimizes build tools for software teams. This role offers an opportunity to work with a product used by industry leaders like Netflix, Airbnb, and Spotify. The position requires expertise in Java and distributed systems, with a focus on building scalable, fault-tolerant solutions.
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll be responsible for designing and implementing features that impact developer productivity across major organizations. The role involves close collaboration with customers and team members in a remote-first environment, while working on challenging technical problems that require sophisticated solutions.
The ideal candidate brings 7+ years of software development experience, strong Java expertise, and a track record of delivering complex features. You'll work in a culture that values automation, test-driven development, and continuous learning. The position offers competitive compensation, including equity, and numerous benefits such as learning stipends and flexible work arrangements.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone passionate about developer tools and productivity, wanting to make a significant impact in the developer productivity engineering space. You'll be part of a globally distributed team that values both technical excellence and interpersonal relationships, working with cutting-edge technologies and contributing to solutions used by some of the world's leading technology companies.
Responsibilities For Senior Backend Engineer
- Design, implement, test, deliver and maintain Develocity features
- Solve technical problems that have large scope, complexity, and business impact
- Managing individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables
- Assisting clients during trials and in production
- Contributing to changes that improve the team's velocity and efficiency
- Participate in Develocity releases in collaboration with the entire engineering team
Requirements For Senior Backend Engineer
- 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
- Working proficiency and communication skills in written and verbal English
- Self-motivated and self-managing, with excellent organizational skills
- 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
Benefits For Senior Backend Engineer
- Annual learning and development stipend
- Monthly company-wide Learning Day
- Hardware package including laptop, monitor, and peripherals
- Home office stipend
- Generous paid time off
- Paid public holidays
- 8 hours paid volunteer time
- Competitive salaries and equity grants
- Remote-first environment
- Annual company offsite and team meetings
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