Functieomschrijving
Position
Role: Mid-senior / Senior Backend Engineer (Lead Backend Engineer)
Context: Strengthen a multidisciplinary team responsible for web and mobile backend features, shaping the technical vision together with the domain architect and Chapter lead. Work in an Agile Scrum environment with a DevOps approach and biweekly production delivery.
Purpose
- Create and maintain a frictionless API layer for mobile and web frontends.
- Integrate the platform with core financial services.
- Provide secure and high-performing APIs.
What you will do
- Shape and communicate the platform technical vision and enable the team to follow it.
- Design, develop and maintain highly available and resilient backend applications.
- Implement and maintain REST/JSON APIs, SOA and event-driven designs.
- Work in an Agile Squad/Chapter setup, participate in Scrum rituals and continuous delivery.
- Ensure code quality, security and test coverage (unit and integration testing).
Required experience & skills
- 8+ years professional Java experience (design, develop, maintain production systems).
- Experience with Java 8+ (preferably Java 11+), Git and Maven.
- Experience with Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data JPA/JDBC.
- Unit and integration testing experience; Test Driven Development.
- Understanding of messaging platforms (Kafka, EMS, ActiveMQ and/or IBM MQ).
- Experience with monitoring and alerting (Prometheus/Grafana), and Elastic Search.
- Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes or OpenShift).
- Basic Linux commands and bash scripting.
- Good knowledge of relational databases (Oracle).
- Knowledge of Azure CI/CD pipelines and cloud migration considerations.
Technology expertise
- Java 11+, Spring
- Cassandra, Oracle
- Kafka, Linux
- Design Patterns, Object Oriented and Functional Programming
Behavior & working style
- Comfortable in a high-performing team and supportive of peers.
- Fluent in English (speaking and writing) for international team collaboration.
- Commitment to code quality and secure coding practices; enjoy coaching peers on architecture and best practices.
Engagement
- Work arrangement: This assignment is available on a secondment (detachment) basis only; freelancers (ZZP) are not permitted. Self-employed candidates may be able to work via secondment arrangements.
- Occasional travel to other European countries may be required.
Eisen
- Azure
- CI/CD
- GIT
- Java
- Maven
- Oracle
- Spring Boot
- Spring Data JPA/JDBC
- Spring MVC
Je sollicitatie dient uiterlijk 6 mei 2026 om 07:00 uur door ons te zijn ingediend, voorzien van een motivatie (waarin wordt toegelicht hoe aan de eisen en gunningscriteria wordt voldaan) en twee referenties. Wij ontvangen je gegevens graag minimaal één werkdag vóór de sluitingsdatum.