Backend software Engineer

Papaya Global is a rapidly growing, award-winning B2B tech unicorn with an ambitious mission to revolutionize the payroll & payments industry. With over $400M raised from multiple tier-one investors, our innovative technology provides a comprehensive solution for managing global workforces, encompassing everything from hiring and onboarding to managing and paying employees in over 160 countries.

We're looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to join our team in Krakow or remotely from anywhere in Poland. Success in this position requires experience and passion for building solutions using Java with the Spring ecosystem.

We use Java to develop our backend and the latest AWS services for development and production environments. The team is responsible for workforce management solutions and integrations with other domains, such as payroll and payments.

As part of the team, you will design new features with the Architecture and Product teams, planning and executing features critical to Papaya's business flow. You will use Java with Spring Boot, Micro-services, REST & GraphQL, messages queues, relational and no-SQL databases, and more on the backend.

You will:

• Develop new features and services in Java/Spring Boot/AWS
• Design business workflows.
• Lead technical discussions, influencing technology and architectural decisions impacting entire Papaya Global’s platform
• Improve the quality of our services and solutions
• Extend and improve monitoring capabilities
• Become a technical expert in one of the domains while working in cross functional team contributing to multiple services across several domains
• Work in scrum
• Train and mentor other engineers on clean code principles, evangelising software craftsmanship in the organisation
• Work in a dynamic environment in the scale-up company
• Work cross teams to develop e2e features (Product, Architecture, DevOps, other R&D teams)
• Creat and drive practises in the team like pair programming, code review, TDD
• Cooperating with DevOps and Client Side engineers in delivering shared outcomes in agile environment

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in server-side development (we use Java 21+)
• Strong expertise in the field of microservices (Kubernetes)
• Experience with web service frameworks (Spring)
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (S3, SQS, SES)
• Previous experience with hexagonal architecture, event driven architecture, 12 factor application principles
• Hands-on experience with AI-powered development tools (e.g., Cursor, Copilot, ChatGPT, or similar), integrating AI into coding workflows to enhance productivity and code quality.
• Experience with agile development, including continuous integration, continuous deployment, and coding for automated testing
• Experience with building software with non-functional requirements in mind (availability, reliability, security, observability, resilience etc) and understanding of associated techniques and tooling
• A team player with a passion for technology
• You write clean code, unit tested (TDD/BDD), and value readability over cleverness
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Fluent in both spoken and written English
• Practical experience in an agile software development environment
• Self-driven and result oriented; You'll jump on a task and drive it to completion