Senior Backend Engineer (Java)

Ready to shape the core experience that connects everything our customers do across the Benifex platform?

We're looking for a skilled Senior Backend Engineer to help evolve our Unified Profile service - the central source of truth for user identities, preferences, and cross-product data.

You'll design and build robust, API-driven, event-oriented services that power a seamless, consistent experience across multiple products.

If you're passionate about clean APIs, data modelling, event-driven architecture, and setting architectural direction, this role puts you right at the heart of the platform.

Stack: Java, Spring Boot, REST API's, MongoDB, Golang, Docker, Kubernetes, GCP.

Technical Fundamentals

Strong experience building high-performance backend systems with Java and Spring Boot

Solid understanding of event-driven architecture (EDA) and distributed system principles

Practical experience with messaging systems (e.g., Google Cloud Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, or similar)

Experience working with NoSQL databases, ideally MongoDB Atlas

Comfortable working with and supporting production services in cloud environments

Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines (CircleCI, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc.)

Ways of Working

Experience working in a fast-paced agile environment, with a focus on flow efficiency, reducing WIP, and getting stories to Done

Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills

Leadership & Growth

Experience mentoring or technically leading engineers, fostering growth and supporting good engineering practices

Bonus Points! ⭐

Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Experience with Keycloak or other identity/auth frameworks

Experience with observability tooling (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus)

Even if you don't meet all of the requirements for this role, we encourage you to apply! We are looking for talented and passionate individuals who are eager to learn and grow. We also offer a variety of other roles, so please check out our careers page to see if there is something else that might be a good fit for you.

Benifex understand the need to have a fast and efficient process, the below will all be completed in the shortest time possible, typically a 2-2.5 week timeframe.

📞 Initial informal call with the Talent team

⏳ Interview with our Engineering Director 30-45 min

🧪 Technical Task

🔎 Technical Interview - 60 min

🤩 Final interview with VP of Engineering - 30-45 min

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcome and respected. We believe that diversity and inclusion are essential to our success, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.