Java Backend Software Engineer

About the Team
The engineering team at Jitterbit believes that the quality of our code reflects directly on us as professionals. We are relentless about crafting a product that is innovative and delivers a memorable user experience; an experience that is fast and robust. As a key engineer on our team you will collaborate with other engineers product management and operations.
Our culture is fun fast-paced performance-oriented open and collegial. We are constantly pushing the technology envelope to the edge! We are very distributed and our culture is set up to make all of us very effective working remotely. We believe in hiring talent where it exists.

Key team values:

• Quality-first mindset: We believe code quality directly reflects on us as professionals
• Distributed ownership: Engineers own their subsystems end-to-end from design to production support
• Mentorship culture: Senior engineers actively develop junior talent and foster technical growth
• Innovation mindset: We constantly explore new technologies and architectural patterns to stay ahead

About the Job
As a Java Backend Software Engineer you will join our team to design architect and implement robust scalable distributed systems that power our SaaS platform. This role offers significant technical depth and opportunities for engineers ready to grow into more senior responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement high-performance fault-tolerant connector integrations and adapters that reliably handle mission-critical business workflows 24x7x365.
• Architect distributed microservices following cloud-native design patterns (circuit breakers bulkheads observability etc.) for multi-tenant SaaS environments.
• Build and optimize data pipelines handling multiple protocols (REST SOAP GraphQL gRPC webhooks) and communication patterns (synchronous asynchronous event-driven).
• Drive technical decisions on critical subsystems; contribute to RFCs and architectural reviews; mentor junior engineers on system design principles.
• Implement comprehensive monitoring logging and tracing; own the operational health and observability of deployed systems.
• Collaborate with Product DevOps and SRE teams to deliver features resolve production incidents and improve platform reliability.
• Champion best practices: code reviews testing strategies (unit integration chaos) security hardening and performance optimization.
• Contribute to platform infrastructure and developer experience initiatives that benefit the entire engineering organization.

Qualifications :

We are looking for:

• Strong experience designing and building large-scale distributed backend systems handling high throughput and low latency requirements.
• Experience working with multi-tenant SaaS architectures in production; deep understanding of isolation rate-limiting and resource management across tenants.
• Proven ability to drive system design and participate in architectural decisions; experience mentoring engineers on design patterns and best practices.
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills; demonstrated ability to diagnose complex production issues in distributed systems.
• Deep experience with microservices architecture including service decomposition API design and inter-service communication patterns.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS Google Cloud or Azure); familiarity with container orchestration (Kubernetes) and serverless patterns.
• Strong foundation in software engineering fundamentals: SOLID principles design patterns system design testing strategies (unit integration e2e).

Technical Skills and Experience:

• Expert-level Java (Java 8): Strong OOP principles concurrency performance tuning memory management (heap GC) and the Java ecosystem (Spring Boot Guava Netty etc.).
• Protocol expertise: REST SOAP GraphQL gRPC and related concepts (HTTP semantics caching rate limiting error handling).
• Message brokers & event streaming: Hands-on experience with RabbitMQ Apache Kafka AWS SQS/SNS or similar; understanding of at-least-once delivery dead-letter queues and stream processing.
• Database technologies: Strong SQL (query optimization indexing); experience with NoSQL databases (MongoDB DynamoDB Cassandra) and their consistency trade-offs.
• Containerization & orchestration: Proficiency with Docker; practical experience with Kubernetes or container runtimes in production.
• Version control: Advanced Git workflows (branching strategies rebasing cherry-picking); experience with GitHub or similar platforms.
• CI/CD & DevOps: Working knowledge of GitHub Actions Jenkins ArgoCD or similar; ability to write build pipelines deployment scripts and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform CloudFormation).
• OS & systems: Comfortable with Linux command line; understanding of OS-level concepts (memory allocation processes file systems networking).
• Observability: Experience with logging (ELK Splunk) metrics (Prometheus Grafana) and distributed tracing (Jaeger Zipkin).

Additional Information :

What Youll Get:

• Work for a growing leader within the Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) tech space
• Join a mission-driven company that is transforming the industry by changing the way customers use API creation within business-critical processes.
• Career development and mentorship
• A flexible remote-friendly company with personality and heart

Jitterbit is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race color religion national origin gender sexual orientation gender identity age physical or mental disability genetic factors military/veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time

Department / Functional Area: Engineering
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1