Senior Java Engineer (Elasticsearch)

Location: Greece

Salary: €61,100–€96,600 EUR per year base salary; no variable compensation.

Company

hirify.global develops the hirify.global Search AI Platform for search, security, and observability across cloud and on-premise environments.

What you will do

• Build and evolve foundational infrastructure and shared functionality for hirify.globalsearch.
• Design and implement horizontally scalable features and APIs.
• Improve developer productivity through automation and AI-assisted development workflows.
• Investigate and resolve performance, concurrency, stability, and operational issues end-to-end.
• Improve observability and operation of hirify.globalsearch cloud systems.
• Lead cross-team projects and collaborate with hirify.globalsearch users, support engineers, and open-source projects.

Requirements

• Strong core Java skills, including data structures, concurrency constructs, and newer language features.
• Experience with low-level Java, concurrency, parallelism, classloaders, algorithms, data structures, and API design.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems and practices such as Buildkite, Argo CD, and GitOps.
• Experience leading large-scale projects across engineering teams and owning technical delivery from design through completion.
• Proven use of AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code.
• Ability to work autonomously and collaborate asynchronously across distributed teams.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of JDK internals, the Java memory model, garbage collection, database load, and caching.
• Experience with observability and telemetry solutions, particularly OpenTelemetry.
• Knowledge of Go, containers, Kubernetes, and Java build tools such as Gradle or Maven.
• Experience in a platform or developer productivity team.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible locations and schedules are available for many roles.
• Health coverage is available for employees and families in many locations.
• Generous annual vacation allowance and parental leave of at least 16 weeks.
• Up to $2,000 or local-currency equivalent matched for financial donations and service.
• Up to 40 paid hours each year for volunteer projects.
• Work follows hirify.global’s Secure Software Development Framework and applicable privacy and security policies.