Backend Engineer - Java

Sonalake is a software partnering company that helps our clients realise their product roadmaps. Product design and engineering are at the heart of our business. Our engineering teams work with clients right across the stack; UX, UI design, frontend, backend, analytics, infrastructure, operations - and everything else that goes into delivering great products. We thrive on variety and are highly adaptable. Our teams are exposed to domains as varied as telecom billing, ad tech, securities-based lending, travel tech analytics, and many more. Innovation is central to our mission; anticipating future client needs, analysing emerging technologies and developing new products and services. We are now seeking to grow our backend development capability. That's where you come in! You will Develop rock solid efficient server-side applicationsWrite clean, readable, well-commented, maintainable codeWork as part of a multi-disciplinary team with designers and other developersContribute to product innovation and our open source projectsHelp evolve and improve our development standards, tooling, and processes You may be a fit for this role if you Have 3+ years hands-on software engineering experienceHave developed business applications using some of the following technologiesJava, KotlinSpring, Quarkus, MicronautHibernate, JPA, logging and telemetry frameworksWorked with Jenkins, Docker, Git and are very comfortable working from the Linux command line and with scripting languagesHave experience designing for and working with Amazon Web ServicesWorked on teams that have shipped and operated critical software systemsTake pride in working on projects to successful completion involving a wide variety of technologies and systemsThrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter expertsAre a great communicator in English - both written and spokenThrive on a high level of autonomy and responsibility within a knowledge sharing cultureAre based in Slovakia, Poland or HungaryExperience in Camunda 7 is a big plus What's in it for you? Remote-first approach with many team-building activities. You can work from our offices in Dublin, Poznan or Bratislava, or work on a fully remote or hybrid basis. We believe in a healthy work-life balanceEvery Sonalaker gets a training budget and paid training days every year to upskill. This covers courses, training, books or conferencesWe've a flat organisational structure with an emphasis on open, honest communication. There are no siloes, no hierarchies and no barriersWe focus on innovation: we run projects to evaluate new frameworks, create tools for internal use, contribute to the open source community and research new ways to use existing products in new problem domainsIndefinite period employment contract We take pride in being a people-oriented company. Openness and opportunity are really important to us. We build teams that span from experienced leaders to bright graduates and work to develop all of us within our coaching culture.