Backend Java Engineer
Airship, Remote - France +1
The role
As a Backend Java Engineer, you will design, develop, and support distributed systems that combine scale with high reliability. You will work on low-latency services that process continuous event streams and support analytical workloads across terabytes of data. Our backend infrastructure runs on Google Cloud Platform. It uses Java-based microservices and SQL and NoSQL databases. You will join a core engineering team that shapes Airship’s technical foundations and engineering practices.
What you will do
- Design data schemas and take ownership of data semantics
- Maintain, improve, and scale Java APIs and distributed services
- Investigate performance issues using server metrics, application data, and system behavior
- Improve the reliability, testability, and maintainability of our backend systems
- Partner with product and engineering teams on technical design and implementation
- Help define technical standards across teams
- Lead and own large-scale releases and technical projects
- Use AI as a technical assistant to draft development plans and investigate problems or bugs