Backend Engineer, Java

Phillips Online runs an online marketplace where homeowners book local handymen, cleaners and movers. Founded in 2018, we now have 90 employees.

We are adding a Backend Engineer, Java to our Orders team. Backend role focused on API design, data modelling and making slow things fast. Remote within Australia. The team meets in Sydney once a quarter, travel covered. Monday to Friday, regular working hours, flexible start and finish.

Responsibilities:

• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Clear written communication, including design docs
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js

Preferred qualifications:

• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch
• Kubernetes, including Helm charts
• Terraform or Pulumi

Benefits:

Rate: $149,000 - $178,000 per annum

• Superannuation on top of salary
• Paid parental leave
• Flexible hours
• 17.5% leave loading
• Employee share plan
• Annual bonus

You must have full working rights in Australia.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Phillips Online.