Senior Backend Engineer (Java, SpringBoot) (m/f/d)

• Design, build, test, and operate backend services that support payments, invoicing, ledger flows, and financial data consistency
• Help shape the technical direction within your domain, making trade-offs explicit and aligning them with business impact, reliability, maintainability, and delivery speed
• Help decompose our monolithic financial platform into clearer domain-oriented services
• Improve system quality through simpler architecture, better observability, cleaner APIs, automated testing, and reduced operational complexity
• Use production data and operational signals to identify risks, propose improvements, and follow them through with the team
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers: conduct code reviews, share architectural context, and raise the technical bar of the team

How to stand out:

• Seasoned software engineer (5+ years) with experience building enterprise applications with Java and Spring, combined with a solid understanding of software design principles, distributed systems, relational databases, SQL, and data modeling
• You take ownership of your work, constructively challenge assumptions, and translate improvement opportunities into practical, maintainable solutions
• You thrive in collaborative environments, value diverse perspectives, and communicate clearly in Italian and English across disciplines
• Experience building scalable, resilient, and highly available backend systems
• Combine a strong quality mindset with a pragmatic approach to reducing complexity in existing systems, using automated testing as a key enabler of reliable software delivery
• Experience decomposing a monolith into bounded, domain-oriented services
• Experience designing and implementing event-driven architectures, particularly with Kafka or similar messaging platforms
• Experience mentoring engineers and raising engineering standards
• Hands-on experience with AI tools for coding, code review, testing, documentation, skills, prompts, instructions, and plugins

• Full-time position
• Permanent contract
• Based in Chiasso

• Small engineering teams with visible technical impact
• Short delivery cycles and direct access to production and stakeholders
• A pragmatic agile environment focused on continuous value delivery
• Training and development opportunities through Riverty and Bertelsmann training sessions and customized development plans
• A hybrid work m