Senior Backend Engineer

Job Description Career Opportunity for a Senior Backend Engineer in Japan! ■ Sr Backend Engineer ■ Company Overview A Japan-based manufacturing technology company that helps industrial businesses improve procurement and production efficiency through AI-driven data platforms, enabling better use of engineering drawings, quotation workflows, and supply chain information. Its solutions focus on digitizing fragmented manufacturing knowledge, reducing operational costs, and supporting data-driven decision-making across large-scale manufacturing organizations. ■ Your Role And Responsibilities Design, support the implementation and deliver large scale, and complex, systemsManage teams stakeholders such as product managers or frontend engineers but also other team leads or non-tech stakeholders.Leverage the infrastructure to solve such large scale problems.Acts as a gatekeeper to the team quality standardTriage, debug and resolve product issues or other incoming inquiriesMentor other team members and saveguard the team quality standards ■ Tech Stack We currently work with Back-end Services Main implementations are in Spring Boot, with a mix of Java 11/Spring Boot 2 and Java 17/Spring Boot 3.Some legacy systems are written in Java EE.Testing is done with JUnit and MockitoDeployment relies on AWS ECSCI/CD is handled by AWS CodePipeline Infrastructure All our services run in AWSInfrastructure is managed by AWS CloudFormationAWS CloudWatch is used for observabilityCoding environment: GitHub, IntelliJ, GradleDocumentation & Project management: Confluence, Miro, JIRACommunication: Slack, Zoom, Office 365 ■ Experience And Qualifications Experience in any OOP based language e.g Kotlin, Java, C#, Scala etc.Experience with RDBMS and NoSQL databases, along with distributed cache.Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms and object oriented programming.In-depth understanding of concurrency and distributed computing.Degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science or 5+ years equivalent experience inSaaS platform development.English business proficiencyExperience with Java/Spring Boot frameworkExperience with implementing platform components such as RESTful APIs, Pub/Sub Systems, Database Clients.Experience in system design for high traffic application with scalability in mindExperience with microservices & event-driven architectureExperience gRPC communication design and implementationExperience in a multicultural environmentJapanese conversational proficiency is a plus ■ Good Reasons to Join Hybrid position in JapanWork with International team membersWorking hours: Flextime schedule with a core time of 11:00–16:00. Includes a 1 hour break. ■ Work Location Tokyo, Japan Details will be provided during the meeting.