Backend Engineer (Java)

Location: Remote, with quarterly office visits; candidates must be based in the UK or Ireland.

Salary: £45,000–£75,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global builds online reward and employee benefits technology used by more than five million employees across over 3,000 organisations in more than 100 countries.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain REST APIs and backend services with Java and Spring Boot.
• Implement event-driven workflows with Google Cloud Pub/Sub to synchronise profile data across products.
• Improve service performance, reliability, observability, logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
• Shape system architecture, data contracts, domain events, schemas, testing strategy, CI/CD, and code quality standards.
• Collaborate with product, platform, data engineering, security, frontend, and mobile teams on secure, compliant, well-documented APIs.
• Participate in design reviews, architectural discussions, incident retrospectives, and engineering mentorship.

Requirements

• Experience building high-performance backend systems with Java and Spring Boot.
• Solid understanding of event-driven architecture and distributed systems.
• Practical experience with messaging systems such as Google Cloud Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, or similar.
• Experience with NoSQL databases, ideally MongoDB Atlas.
• Comfort supporting production services in cloud environments.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines such as CircleCI, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
• Experience working in a fast-paced agile environment focused on flow efficiency, reducing work in progress, and completing stories.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

Nice to have

• Experience mentoring engineers and supporting strong engineering practices.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform, Keycloak or other identity and authentication frameworks.
• Experience with observability tools such as OpenTelemetry, Grafana, or Prometheus.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote working setup with quarterly office attendance and a Work from Anywhere policy for up to 90 days.
• Tech equipment of choice, including a MacBook Pro or equivalent, and an annual £800 learning budget with two weekly Focus Friday hours.
• 25 days of holiday plus local bank holidays, birthday leave, wellbeing days, and holiday buy-and-sell options.
• Healthcare cash plan, employee assistance, income protection, life assurance, enhanced parental leave, and a monthly hirify.global card allowance.
• Fast-paced, agile product engineering environment with published career pathways from Associate to Principal.

Hiring process

• Initial informal call with the Talent team, followed by a 30-minute Engineering Manager interview.
• Technical task, 60-minute technical interview, and final 30–45-minute interview with the VP of Engineering.
• Reasonable adjustments can be requested at any stage of the recruitment process.