Backend Engineer

Experience: 6+ years building production backend systems in Node.js for B2C products at meaningful scale.

• System Design: This one matters a lot to us. You can reason clearly about scalability, reliability, and trade-offs under real constraints.

• Fundamentals: Strong grasp of API design, service-oriented architecture, data structures, algorithms, and clean code.

• Databases: Depth in SQL and/or NoSQL, data modeling, query optimization, and performance tuning.

• AI-Native: You already use LLMs and agentic approaches to maximize your own efficiency as an engineer.

• Mindset: You enjoy the pace and breadth of a small team, and you are happy picking up whatever moves the product forward.

Job Description

As part of our role at a leading global insurance company, we are responsible for developing and managing an application to onboard and oversee the company's sales partners, including agents and brokers. This application provides users with a tailored, independent solution, including a required multi-dimensional validity date concept for administering all organizational and contractual sales force data to deliver structured information to many data consumers.

To reinforce our dynamic development team, we are seeking a skilled Backend or Full-stack Developer. In this role, you will collaborate with international cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deploy high-quality software solutions.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain the application, ensuring high performance and responsiveness.

Write clean, efficient, and reusable code.

Implement new features and functionality based on business requirements.

Participate in system and application architecture discussions.

Create technical designs and specifications for new features or enhancements.

Write and execute unit tests to ensure code quality.

Debug and resolve technical issues and software defects.

Conduct code reviews to ensure adherence to best practices.

Identify and fix vulnerabilities to ensure application integrity.

Work with frontend developers to ensure seamless integration of user-facing elements.

Collaborate with DevOps teams for deployment and scaling.

Design and implement workflow automation using Camunda BPM, integrating it with backend services and ensuring efficient process execution.

Optimize and maintain business process models and workflow orchestration using Camunda.

Troubleshoot and enhance Camunda BPMN workflows, DMN decision tables, and process automation configurations.

Requirements

 Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field.

Proven experience as a skilled Backend or Full-stack Developer. Experience in the insurance domain is appreciated.

Strong experience with Spring Boot 3, Java 17 or newer, and Maven.

Experience with PostgreSQL, Jenkins, Sonar, Dynatrace, Kubernetes, Mockito, IntelliJ IDEA, and GitHub repository.

Hands-on experience with Camunda BPM (v7 or v8), including BPMN workflows, DMN decision tables, and REST API integration.

Experience with Angular TS and/or AWS, Kafka is a plus.

Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.

Strong communication and collaboration abilities to work effectively in a team environment.

• Minimum 4 years’ experience developing Node.js applications on top of RESTful APIs.
• Experience building single page applications using JavaScript frameworks and libraries (React)
• Experience with cross-browser, cross-platform and design constraints on the web.
• Experience with test automation: TDD, unit/integration/functional testing.
• Solid understanding of object-oriented design and programming concepts.
• Have a passion for quality and writing clean, solid, readable code that scales and performs well.
• Proficient in Git and familiarity with continuous integration.
• A team player who values collaboration, innovation, and inclusion
• Comfortable working in an Agile environment
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Titaniam’s software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that protect big data. Our products need to handle information at a massive scale. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing as well as large-scale system design. As a software engineer, you will work on projects critical to the company needs with opportunities to switch projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

• Work closely with software engineers, product managers, and sales teams to bring innovative solutions to market.
• Communicate and negotiate across teams to get buy-in and alignment towards a shared vision.
• Apply technical judgement and identify return-on-investment opportunities.
• Learn new technologies and apply them appropriately for bringing value to customers.

• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, programming languages, distributed systems, and information retrieval.
• Experience in architecting and developing distributed systems design.
• Experience in technical leadership, leading project teams, and setting technical direction.
• Proven record of test driven development.
• Experience with Java, Spring Framework or similar technologies.

• Experience in driving technical projects and providing leadership in an innovative and fast-paced environment
• Experience in working with other engineering teams internally and externally, and across geographies.
• Experience building web applications for 5+ years.

• You will own a functional area - from product conception to its delivery to customers
• You will be designing and coding independently in multiple tech components related to your functional area
• You will also need to develop a deep understanding of non-functional requirements, such as reliability and availability, scale, horizontal scalability, etc., over time and make tech stack decisions accordingly
• You will also be actively mentoring our junior engineers. You need to someone who owns the codebase quality
• We are looking for seasoned engineers who are quality conscious, product thinkers, business cognizant and smart – not just coders
• Engineers get to significantly amplify the impact of their efficient work or creations with the scale that startups operates at
• Love the Startup Hustle? You have come to the right place!

Requirements:

• 2+ years of deep expertise with JavaScript (Node.js) and any objected oriented high level proprietary or open source language with strong programming constructs
• Substantial experience in building complex and scalable solutions
• Strong problem solving skills
• Good understanding of data structures & algorithms and their space & time complexities
• Strong technical aptitude and a good knowledge of CS fundamentals
• Hands-on experience working with Databases and Linux platform
• Strong object oriented design skills, ability to apply design patterns, and an uncanny ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces
• Experience in Consumer facing apps - Analytics SDKs integrations, Marketing SDKs integrations, Performance optimisation, SQL databases
• Should have developed and delivered successful mobile app projects
• Experience with Devops including Docker, AWS, Serverless

Perks

• Opportunity to start from scratch
• Flexible and cool work environment - Startup work culture
• Young and dynamic team
• Offsites
• Regular game and hangout sessions every week