Backend Engineer (Java)

About the Position

Sonalake is a software partnering company that helps our clients realize their product roadmaps. Product design and engineering are at the heart of our business. Our engineering teams work with clients across the stack; UX, UI design, frontend, backend, analytics, infrastructure, operations - and everything else that goes into delivering great products.

We are now seeking to grow our backend development capability. That’s where you come in!

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

Requirements

• 3+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
• Experience developing business applications using some of the following technologies:
  • Jenkins
  • Docker
  • Git
  • Linux (comfortable working from the command line and with scripting languages)
  • Amazon Web Services
• Experience working on teams that have shipped and operated critical software systems
• 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
• Great communicator in English - both written and spoken
• Thrive on a high level of autonomy and responsibility within a knowledge-sharing culture
• Based in Slovakia, Poland, or Hungary
• Experience in Camunda 7 is a big plus

We Offer

• 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 balance.
• Every Sonalaker gets a training budget and paid training days every year to upskill. This covers courses, training, books, or conferences.
• We have a flat organizational structure with an emphasis on open, honest communication. There are no silos, 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.

About the Company

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.

Get in touch with us to learn more about this exciting opportunity at Sonalake!