Senior Java Engineer (#4884)

We're seeking a Software Java Engineer with 5+ years of experience to help build and scale the backend services that power our content discovery, licensing, and delivery platforms across all of our content libraries. You'll join a team that's passionate about clean architecture, performance, and solving complex challenges at scale. If you thrive in a collaborative environment and love building robust APIs, data-driven systems, and data modeling we'd love to hear from you.

What You'll Do:

• Design, implement, and maintain backend services using Java, Spring Boot, and the broader Spring ecosystem.

• Build and evolve RESTful APIs that power content metadata, search, recommendation, and licensing workflows.

• Work with Kafka to build event-driven and real-time processing systems.

• Use SQL and work with relational databases to support structured content metadata.

• Partner with data and analytics teams to model data in data warehouses, supporting reporting and analytics use cases.

• Build and maintain DBT models to transform raw data into clean, usable datasets.

• Leverage the AWS ecosystem for service deployment, data storage, and pipeline orchestration.

• Contribute to technical discussions, system design, and code reviews.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional backend development experience.

• Strong proficiency in Java, with experience using Spring Boot and Spring Framework.

• Experience designing and consuming REST APIs.

• Familiarity with Kafka or other message streaming platforms.

• Solid understanding of relational databases and writing optimized SQL.

• Comfortable working with GraphQL.

• Exposure to Python or willingness to learn.

• A collaborative mindset with strong communication skills.

• A passion for clean code, scalable systems, and continuous learning.

Nice-to-Have:

• Practical experience working with data warehouses and DBT for data transformation and modeling.

• Hands-on experience working with the AWS ecosystem (especially Aurora/Dynamo DB).

• Experience working with Node.js and/or Typescript.

• Knowledge of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).

• Experience with Databricks/Snowflake.

• Background in building systems for search, metadata enrichment, or digital asset management.

We offer:

• Flexible working format - remote, office-based or flexible

• A competitive salary and good compensation package

• Personalized career growth

• Professional development tools (mentorship program, tech talks and trainings, centers of excellence, and more)

• Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing

• Education reimbursement

• Memorable anniversary presents

• Corporate events and team buildings

• Other location-specific benefits