Remote Backend Engineer

Summary

The job is for a backend developer at Sonalake, a software partnering company that works across various domains. The role involves developing server-side applications, working with a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to product innovation, and helping evolve development standards. Remote work is offered, and employees receive training budgets and paid training days.

Requirements

• Have 5 years hands-on software engineering experience
• Have developed business applications using some of the following technologies: Java, Kotlin, Spring, Quarkus, Micronaut, Hibernate, JPA, logging and telemetry frameworks
• Worked with Jenkins, Docker, Git and are very comfortable working from the Linux command line and with scripting languages
• Have experience designing for and working with Amazon Web Services
• Worked on teams that have shipped and operated critical software systems

Responsibilities

• Develop rock solid efficient server-side applications
• Write clean, readable, well-commented, maintainable code
• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team with designers and other developers
• Contribute to product innovation and our open source projects
• Help evolve and improve our development standards, tooling, and processes

Preferred Qualifications

• Take pride in working on projects to successful completion involving a wide variety of technologies and systems
• Thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts
• Are a great communicator in English - both written and spoken

Benefits

• Remote-first approach with many team-building activities
• Every Sonalaker gets a training budget and paid training days every year to upskill
• We’ve a flat organisational structure with an emphasis on open, honest communication. There are no siloes, no hierarchies and no barriers
• We 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 domains
• Indefinite period employment contract