Backend Developer

Role Purpose (Summary of position)

Developing software is great, but developing software with a purpose is even better! As a Principal Backend Software Engineer, you ll work on a product that helps people with the most precious thing they have their health. In collaborative teams of engineers, designers, product owners, and QA experts, you ll experience best-in-class software development practices daily and contribute to software that meets the highest expectations we do not put our users' lives at risk!

Here s what we re looking for:

We are looking for an experienced, motivated Principal Backend Software Engineer who will work closely with their backend colleagues, and who ideally has built digital products and platforms. As a code-magician, you will support our efforts to improve the digital health ecosystem. You will contribute with your knowledge of Java, Spring Boot, relational databases & REST within our agile and cross-functional teams. As a flexible and open-minded person with a passion for clean code you will be a perfect addition to our team. We are committed to quality, dedicating time to code reviews, test coverage, quality days and CI/CD principles. If this resonates with you, we would love to hear from you!

You will be part of the Platform Engineering chapter working on our navify platform.

Essentials skills for your mission:

You have the required years of experience as specified by your educational background: At least 8 years of experience working as a software engineer with a Bachelor's degree, including 5 years as backend engineer.

At least 6 years of experience working as a software engineer with a Master s degree, including 5 years as a backend engineer.

At least 3 years of experience working as a software engineer for candidates with a PhD.

Equivalent work experience, which includes at least 8 years as a software engineer and 5 years as a backend engineer.

You are familiar with the following backend technologies: Java 21+ and frameworks like Spring Boot 3+

SQL and relational databases (e.g.PostgreSQL) are second nature to you

You have experience with OpenID Connect standard and Keycloak or other open source software product that allows single sign-on with identity and access management

You enjoy developing clean, stable, testable, and performant backend code, serving our beautiful applications

You are passionate about solid technical design, clean code, and future-proof architectures

You have experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) or other cloud providers

You enjoy guiding and sharing your knowledge with other engineers

Great written and verbal communication in English