Senior Backend Engineer

Brandwatch is the world’s premier social suite, empowering over 7,500 of the world’s most admired companies to understand and engage with customers at the speed of social. <br/>Combining pioneering, AI-enriched digital consumer intelligence with industry-leading social media management tools, Brandwatch offers a complementary suite of specialized, best-in-class products and services that support intelligently connected workflows. With Brandwatch, brands and agencies can adapt and thrive in today’s fast moving digital world by making smarter decisions and executing data-driven social strategies at every customer touchpoint.<br/>Operating and serving clients the world over, Brandwatch has 15 offices across the globe and more than 1,000 employees worldwide. Brandwatch is a Cision Company.<br/>Brandwatch is looking for a new member for the Engage team. You will be part of a cross-functional and autonomous product team responsible for providing solutions that enable our customers to manage and interact with their communities on social media networks like Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter. <br/>As a Senior Backend Engineer in Brandwatch, you will be responsible for developing high quality code that can improve current solutions, or provide new functionality to our customers. You will be part of the entire journey that brings a feature from a discovery state to delivery on production. <h3>In this role, you will:</h3> <ul> <li>Improve and maintain the backend stack of Engage while contributing ideas and feedback to the rest of your backend colleagues.</li><li>Uphold a high-quality standard in the backend stack in collaboration with other teams.</li><li>Deliver well-tested and scalable solutions.</li><li>Act as a sparring partner to various members of the team.</li><li>Proactively share and debate best practices with your peers.</li></ul> <h3>We are looking for people with:</h3> <ul> <li>A solid understanding of APIs and contracts.</li><li>Familiarity with micro-services and domain-driven design.</li><li>Intimate knowledge of the Spring Framework and the Spring ecosystem (although other similar frameworks are also fine).</li><li>Experience of highly distributed, event-driven systems.</li><li>A record of coaching &amp; mentoring other team members.</li><li>A willingness and aptitude to influence the technical, architectural direction of our product.</li><li>A working knowledge of Elasticsearch, Apache Kafka and PostgreSQL - the more the better.</li><li>Experience in building and debugging complex systems.</li><li>A proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes.</li><li>An ability to write concise, to the point and idiomatic code in Java.</li><li>Knowledge of unit testing frameworks and end-to-end testing.</li><li>Excellent skills in communication and teamwork.</li><li>Familiarity of Agile and the associated methodologies and tooling.</li><li>A willingness to contribute to team reflection and improvement.</li><li>An ability to adapt to change, be resourceful and share knowledge with the rest of the team.</li><li>Good fluency in English.</li></ul> <h3>What we offer:</h3> <ul> <li>25 days of vacation per year</li><li>The employee is covered by the company’s pension and insurance scheme</li><li>Catered lunch plan everyday on weekdays, as well as a nice selection for breakfast</li><li>Excellent hardware bundle</li><li>Work from home stipend for home equipment for every employee</li><li>Full Headspace subscription, 24/7 Employment Assistance Program</li><li>Informal, friendly, welcoming environment focused on people, learning &amp; development</li></ul>Our Values: <br/>We Act with Care - We invest in our teams, treat each other with respect, and understand that people are the center of our work. We care about our purpose and invest heavily in services to better support our customers.<br/>We Take Pride - We take pride in the quality of our products and services, our company, and each other. <br/>We Spark Change - We are agents of change and we are pioneers in our industry. We reward creativity and value the lessons that come not only from success, but failure as well. <br/>If you’ve found our job opportunity interesting but you don’t meet all of the requirements, it’s still worth applying. We’d love to hear from you!<br/>Brandwatch is a globally distributed organization. However, we can’t provide any legal sponsorship to attain a work visa or permit in your country of residence, nor in any of the countries where we operate. We strongly advise you to seek legal counsel to ensure your residential status is fully legal before you apply. Any offer of employment we make you will be conditional upon you having the right to work in your hiring location and Brandwatch will verify this as part of the onboarding process.<br/>To all recruitment agencies: Brandwatch does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias or Brandwatch employees. Brandwatch is not responsible for any fees related to