Backend Developer

London Full-Time

Do you want to help us unleash the secret to how happy employees create a happy business? We are an innovative, agile, and continuously growing modern tech company on a path to improving the work lives of millions around the world.

We develop workforce management solutions – software that makes scheduling and time reporting more smooth and more flexible for almost a million users worldwide!

We value passion, quality, innovation, trust, and collaboration. You’ll be given the opportunity to make an impact and directly contribute to our success, bring new ideas, and have full ownership of your area.

The Engage team is working on a single portal that brings all the scheduling, task, engagement and communication needs from the frontline workforce into one place. We see a number of opportunities to develop a platform that is unique in the market, helps solve key challenges the workforce faces and meets the needs the business has for a frontline tool.

The market is moving, the competition is forming and Quinyx has in place the core ingredients to win. Are you curious and ready to take the first steps on an awesome journey and make magic happen with us? As a member of the Quinyx family, you will be part of an inclusive and diverse workplace, where you are allowed to be yourself and thrive. We have a hybrid working set up and therefore you will be required to attend our London office twice per week.

About the role

We are building next-gen backend solutions that empower businesses with real-time, data-driven decision-making capabilities. As a Java Backend Engineer, you will join one of our strong cross-functional agile teams. You will work closely with Frontend Developers, DevOps Engineers, QA, Product Managers, and Designers to deliver a high-quality product.

Our Engineering Team is committed to using modern technologies and practices, continuously exploring new innovations in backend development. We work collaboratively and have fun solving complex challenges together.

What you’ll be doing

Be a core member of an Agile product development team, bringing new ideas and designing solutions from start to finish.
Work with the latest technologies, including Java, Spring Boot, MongoDB, MySQL, Hazelcast, and Apache Kafka, to develop scalable, distributed systems.
Design, implement, and maintain high-performance backend services and APIs.
Collaborate closely with other engineers to build robust, highly available, and secure systems.
Participate in code reviews, pair programming, and mentoring sessions to help grow junior engineers.
Focus on improving the user experience, system performance, and the scalability of our core products.
Developing one of the core Quinyx products, adding new features, with a particular focus on user experience, performance and scalability.
Being part of an aspirational culture where we promote learning and growth with code reviews, pair programming, conferences, hackfests, code wars, and workshops where we deep-dive into a technical subject.
Have fun, share knowledge, and experiment with new ideas together.
Commercial experience in backend development, preferably with Java and the Spring Boot framework.
Experience in designing microservices architecture and building APIs for high-performance systems.
Hands-on experience with relational (MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB) databases.
Knowledge of distributed caching (Hazelcast) and event-driven systems (Apache Kafka).
Familiarity with Cloud Computing platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
A customer-centric approach with a passion for delivering reliable and scalable systems.
An open mind, with strong communication and people skills.
A natural curiosity and eagerness to learn and experiment with new technologies.
Experience working in Agile teams and following best practices.