<p><strong>The job in short:</strong></p> <p>Use your extensive experience and expertise to deliver a platform that enables our customers to build banks that people love.</p> <p><strong>Meet the job:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As a Principal Backend Developer you will help define and execute the technical vision for the product. You will help with the prototyping and validation of new architectural and technological ideas, ways of working, efficiency gains and refactoring initiatives.You will help with the prototyping and validation of new architectural and technological ideas, ways of working, efficiency gains and refactoring initiatives. You'll work across departments, foster collaboration, and you'll be the face of our product vision and success internally and externally. You will also interact with teams from the Pre-Sales and Customer Success Departments to ensure technology feedback from customers and field engineers is incorporated. You will have advice based on experience and deep technical understanding of software development, practices and frameworks. You lead by example, radiate our way of working and our path to success. You will take on the expert role in all topics related to Backend.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This role is part of a highly skilled multidisciplinary product team in R&D. As part of the team, you will contribute to new and existing functionalities, proof of concepts, and technical improvements that will be implemented in our Digital Banking Platform.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Backbase provides a modern software solution developed in microservices 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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The underlying technology runs on the best of breed technology available today such as Spring Boot, 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.</span></p> <p><strong>How about you</strong></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> You have a solid background in software development, design and architectural patterns;</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> 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;</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Your experience in the banking domain or Fintech products will be considered an advantage;</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> You have excellent communication skills in English, spoken and written;</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> You have experience with Java, Spring, Maven, JPA, Hibernate, CI and CD;</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> You have strong experience with microservices;</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> You are experienced in Cloud-native deployments and traditional application servers (WebSphere, JBoss, Tomcat);</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> You are knowledgeable of relational databases (Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL);</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> You have good understanding of non-functionals such as security, performance, scalability, etc.;</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> You have a solid understanding of Enterprise Integration Patterns;</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> You know what "perfection" looks like in a given context and you can formulate a plan to achieve the desired state;</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> You have experience as a technical leader.</span></li> </ul>