Senior Backend Engineer (Java)

Location: Remote, Poland

Company

hirify.global is an African financial platform providing payments, banking, credit, cross-border, and business management tools for businesses and individuals.

What you will do

• Collaborate with Product, Design, and QA to design and deliver high-impact features.
• Architect and build scalable, high-performance backend services using Java and Spring Boot.
• Design and integrate third-party services and RESTful APIs with robust error handling and graceful degradation.
• Improve system performance and developer experience through automation, refactoring, and technical enhancements.
• Diagnose complex issues, participate in code reviews and architecture discussions, and document technical decisions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience focused on backend development.
• Deep expertise in Java and Spring Boot, with strong knowledge of backend architecture and engineering best practices.
• Experience designing, building, and scaling web services, RESTful APIs, and distributed systems.
• Working knowledge of Agile methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, relational databases, and ORM frameworks such as Hibernate.
• Strong debugging, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• Exposure to frontend technologies such as AngularJS or React.

Culture & Benefits

• People-first culture focused on well-being, inclusion, collaboration, and open communication.
• Learning and development environment with knowledge sharing, training, and internal technical talks.
• Salary, pension, health insurance, paid leave, and other benefits.
• Technology stack includes Java, Spring Boot, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, and AWS.

Hiring process

• Initial recruiter conversation.
• Take-home technical coding assessment.
• Deep-dive technical interview covering system design, architecture, and problem solving, followed by a final technical and behavioural interview.