Senior Backend Engineer – Java & SpringBoot

About the role

To support our continued growth, we are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer (m/f/d) to join our team and drive the evolution of our core financial platform. This is a full‑time permanent position based in Chiasso.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and operate backend services that support payments, invoicing, ledger flows, and financial data consistency.
• Help shape the technical direction within your domain, making trade‑offs explicit and aligning them with business impact, reliability, maintainability, and delivery speed.
• Assist in decomposing our monolithic financial platform into clearer domain‑oriented services.
• Improve system quality through simpler architecture, better observability, cleaner APIs, automated testing, and reduced operational complexity.
• Use production data and operational signals to identify risks, propose improvements, and follow them through with the team.
• Mentor junior and mid‑level engineers by conducting code reviews, sharing architectural context, and raising the technical bar of the team.

Required profile

• 5+ years of experience building enterprise applications with Java and Spring, with solid understanding of software design principles, distributed systems, relational databases, SQL, and data modeling.
• Ownership mindset, ability to challenge assumptions constructively and translate improvement opportunities into maintainable solutions.
• Strong collaboration skills and clear communication in both Italian and English.
• Proven experience building scalable, resilient, and highly available backend systems.

Required skills

• Java
• SpringBoot
• Oracle and MySQL databases
• SQL
• Kafka (event‑driven architecture)
• Kubernetes
• Microservices design
• Automated testing
• AI coding tools for development, code review, testing, and documentation

What we offer

• Small engineering teams with visible technical impact.
• Short delivery cycles and direct access to production and stakeholders.
• A pragmatic agile environment focused on continuous value delivery.
• Training and development opportunities through Riverty and Bertelsmann sessions.
• Hybrid work model combining on‑site teamwork with remote work.
• Comprehensive employee benefits and exclusive discounts (subject to agreement).