We’re looking for a Backend Engineer who will help us achieve ambitious goals. We expect you to have a strong software engineering experience, readiness to drive change and experiment in search of the best solution, an understanding of how to work with big loads, and be able to scale it. Be responsible for the important parts of the code and be willing to take on difficult challenges, collaborate with teams across Miro to provide well-defined and extendable interfaces on Canvas model data.
What you’ll do- Create high quality technical design and high quality, self-documented code
- Design and implement scalable and high-performing solutions with concurrency and fault-tolerance in mind
- Optimize application performance and scalability, identifying areas for improvement and implementing necessary enhancements.
- Design and implement flexible but stable and future-proof data access patterns and contracts (APIs, events)
- Take long-term ownership for feature/subsystem
- Write exception-safe mission-critical code that has no right to crash
- Collaborate with teams across Miro to improve our product, architecture, and engineering practices
- 5+ years of backend development experience. We use Java 17, Kotlin and Spring (+Spring Boot)
- 4+ years of experience building robust, high-scale, distributed systems in production environments
- Proficient in REST, WebSockets for real-time communication
- Familiarity with cloud architecture, with preference given to experience with AWS.
- Understanding of high-load architecture and SaaS infrastructure
- Understanding of Apache Kafka or equivalent messaging systems
- Proficient in multithreading concepts in Java, including thread management, thread pools, and their impact on system resources and performance
- Competitive equity package
- Health insurance for you and your family
- Breakfast, lunch, snacks, and drinks provided in the office
- Wellbeing benefit and WFH equipment allowance
- Annual learning and development allowance to grow your skills and career
- Opportunity to work for a globally diverse team
- Travel allowance for your commute
Miro is a visual workspace for innovation that enables distributed teams of any size to build the next big thing. The platform's infinite canvas enables teams to lead engaging workshops and meetings, design products, brainstorm ideas, and more. Miro, co-headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam, serves more than 100M users and 250,000 companies collaborate in the Innovation Workspace. Miro was founded in 2011 and currently has more than 1,600 employees in 13 hubs around the world.
We are a team of dreamers. We look for individuals who dream big, work hard, and above all stay humble. Collaboration is at the heart of what we do and through our work together we hope to create a supportive, welcoming, and innovative environment. We strive to play as a team to win the world and create a better version of ourselves every day. If this sounds like something that excites you, we want to hear from you!
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At Miro, we strive to create and foster an environment of belonging and collaboration across cultural differences. Miro’s mission — Empower teams to create the next big thing — is how we think about our product, people, and culture. We believe that creating big things requires diverse and inclusive teams. Diversity invites all talent with different demography, identities and styles to step in, and inclusion invites them to step closer together. Every day, we are working to build a more diverse Miro, cultivate a sense of belonging for future and current Mironeers around the world, and foster an environment where everyone can collaborate and embrace differences.
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