Backend developer Jobs in Delmenhorst

Job Description

Are you interested in joining of Europes fastest growing companies Do you want to impact the wellbeing of millions of users

If yes join us to make an impact in a fast-paced and dynamic environment where youll play a key role in driving financial accountability supporting strategic decisions and enabling sustainable growth.

Epassis purpose is to boost everyday well-being. We are a leading provider of employee benefit solutions across Europe. We were established in Finland in 2007 and in 2008 we were the first company to launch a mobile-payable employee benefit payment solution in Europe. Since then we have consistently grown diversifying our products and introducing our services into new markets.

Epassi has been awarded by the Financial Times as one of the fastest-growing companies in Europe on multiple occasions.

We are currently hiring a Senior Java Engineer to be based in Germany

Your mission at Epassi

You will be part of a cross-functional product team responsible for building and evolving a modern platform that supports Epassis product vision. We are adding this role to strengthen our backend engineering capabilities and establish a solid scalable foundation for Java Spring Boot services built for long-term growth.

In this role you will take ownership of one domain contribute to critical architectural decisions and help shape how we build operate and continuously improve our service landscape across the Epassi group.

Your responsibilities will be :

Design build and maintain high-quality Java Spring Boot microservices as part of our domain bounded context architecture

Implement event-driven architecture for cross-domain communication and eventual consistency patterns

Work with PostgreSQL as primary data storage including schema design with multi-tenancy support and data isolation

Implement RESTful APIs with proper versioning rate limiting and API gateway integration

Ensure high standards for code quality comprehensive testing (unit integration contract) performance optimization and security best practices

Collaborate closely with Product Frontend (React Native) DevOps and other backend teams across multiple European markets

Participate in architectural discussions and technical design reviews and contribute to platform-wide standards and best practices

Youll be successful in this role if you :

Deliver production-ready scalable microservices that meet target architecture specifications

Implement clear domain boundaries that avoid cross-domain coupling while enabling integration through well-defined APIs and events

Maintain code quality with >

80% test coverage and contribute to architectural decision records (ADRs) that shape the platforms future

Take ownership of the reliability and operability of backend services

Proactively identify and reduce technical debt

Communicate clearly and work effectively in a cross-functional team

Support reliable delivery and smooth operations with a you build it you run it mindset

What youll be doing (daily) :

Join a 15-minute stand-up with your cross-functional domain team to align on progress and blockers

Design and implement features in your assigned domain using Java Spring Boot

Write clean testable code with comprehensive unit and integration tests aiming for >

80% coverage before code review

Participate in code reviews via pull requests providing constructive feedback and learning from peers

Monitor synchronization metrics investigate and resolve data consistency issues

Collaborate with frontend engineers to clarify API contracts and coordinate feature releases

Participate in architectural discussions and design reviews for new domain capabilities or cross-cutting concerns

Deploy services to staging and production using CI / CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) using feature flags for gradual rollouts

Debug production issues using distributed tracing and structured logging

What you should bring :

5 years of professional software development experience including 3 years focused on Java backend development

Strong expertise in Java (17) and Spring Boot including Spring Data JPA Spring Security and Spring Cloud

Hands-on experience with microservices architecture (service decomposition API design inter-service communication patterns)

Solid understanding of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) : bounded contexts aggregates domain events anti-corruption layers

Strong knowledge of relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred) including schema design indexing query optimization and transaction management

Experience with event-driven architectures using message brokers (Kafka RabbitMQ AWS SNS / SQS)

Proficiency in RESTful API design including versioning documentation (OpenAPI / Swagger) and rate limiting

Strong testing mindset (JUnit Mockito) plus integration and contract testing (Pact)

Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes including deployment strategies and service mesh concepts

Experience with CI / CD pipelines (Jenkins GitLab CI GitHub Actions)

Understanding of observability : structured logging distributed tracing (Jaeger / Zipkin) and metrics (Prometheus / Grafana / Datadog)

Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or equivalent practical experience

Your track record :

Delivered and operated microservices in production showing ownership from design through deployment and maintenance

Made measurable improvements to performance reliability or scalability (e.g. reduced latency improved uptime scaled traffic)

Collaborated effectively in cross-functional teams demonstrating strong communication and teamwork

Contributed to technical decision-making through architecture reviews or design documents

Mentored junior engineers or led knowledge-sharing sessions

Your competency profile :

Systems Thinking : You understand how components interact in distributed systems and can design for failure scenarios and trade-offs

Ownership & Accountability : You take end-to-end responsibility and proactively improve operational health and technical quality

Pragmatic Problem-Solving : You balance ideal solutions with practical constraints while moving the architecture forward incrementally

Collaboration & Communication : You work well across teams and time zones document decisions and share knowledge

Continuous Learning : You stay current experiment and adapt based on feedback and results

Quality Mindset : You build maintainable secure well-tested services and advocate for strong engineering standards

Why You Should Join Us

Be part of an ambitious growth journey and join a global community of driven bold entrepreneurial yet humble Epassians in a company that is constantly evolving.

Work with a clear purpose boosting everyday wellbeing and create a meaningful positive impact on both individuals and society.

Thrive in an open and inclusive culture with low hierarchy where relationships are built on respect camaraderie and shared successes and challenges.

Come as you are well bring out the best in you and support your personal and professional growth.

Join a fast-growing tech company with a strong financial foundation offering opportunities to grow and make an impact together with us.

Benefit from an inspiring and supportive work environment where employee wellbeing is a true priority.

Contribute to solidifying our position as the number one player in Europes employee benefit market and help shape the next wave of success.

Required Experience :

Senior IC

Key Skills

REST,Eclipse,Junit,Spring,Struts,SOAP,Jpa,Hibernate,Maven,J2EE,Jdbc,Java

Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1