Senior Backend Engineer & Tech Lead

• Building applications: I write clean, reusable code, review peers’ work, and refactor where needed using design patterns.

• End-to-end system ownership: I take responsibility for services from requirements to production—covering development, testing, release, and operations. I define and implement metrics, logs, dashboards, alerts, and documentation.

• Incident management: I address and resolve production issues within SLA, reduce customer impact, and strengthen long-term reliability through root cause analysis and permanent fixes.

• Systems design: I evaluate architectural options and integration approaches across team-owned components, balancing business needs, performance, scalability, and timelines.

• Quality & improvement: I constantly look for process and system enhancements—designing and implementing practices that improve efficiency, resilience, and business performance.

• Communication & collaboration: I document designs and investigations clearly, adapt my message to the audience, and facilitate decisions by practising active listening and constructive debate.

API design & security (OpenAPI, versioning, security best practices) • REST & Kafka integrations (synchronous + asynchronous) • Observability (Prometheus, Elastic: metrics, logs, dashboards, alerts) • Resilience patterns (retries, circuit breakers, graceful degradation, fallbacks) • Java, Spring Boot, AWS • Kubernetes, Docker • CI/CD pipelines, automated testing (unit, integration, performance, end-to-end)