Title: Principal Backend Engineer

Location: Europe

JobDescription:

Develocity is a first-of-its-kind product that software teams use to accelerate and optimize Gradle, Apache Maven™, Bazel, and sbt builds. It comprises several facets, including large-volume data ingestion and processing, complex data analysis and visualization, and distributed caching and execution systems.

Our software is used by some of the world’s leading software organizations, such as Netflix, Airbnb, Spotify, SAP, several top ten banks, and many other major customers across all verticals. We regularly collaborate with these and other users to make our products continuously better.

We have partnered with the Apache Software Foundation, the Micronaut Foundation, and other OSS projects like Spring, Quarkus, Kotlin Compiler, JUnit, AndroidX, etc., to bring the values of Develocity also to the OSS Community.

Profile

We are looking for a Principal back-end engineer with a demonstrated ability to efficiently deliver and maintain robust and useful software based solutions, as part of a collaborative team.

Our ideal candidates have a success record of delivering testable, evolvable, and scalable back-end architectures to production. While not necessarily build experts, they do exhibit a deep understanding and interest in the automation domain and in developer productivity. They thrive on challenging development and integration problems, understand the nuances of performance and memory optimization, possess and can capably articulate strong opinions, and feel comfortable collaborating with a distributed team.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, test, deliver and maintain Develocity features
Solve technical problems that have large scope, complexity, and business impact
Managing individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables
Assisting clients during trials and in production
Contributing to changes that improve the team’s velocity and efficiency
Participate in Develocity releases in collaboration with the entire engineering team

Minimum qualifications

10 years of professional software development experience
In-depth experience with Java and the JVM
Experience leading features of immense complexity end-to-end and cross-team
Experience designing and building fault-tolerant, distributed systems
Experience building and scaling highly-available systems.
Working proficiency and communication skills in written and verbal English
Self-motivated and self-managing, with excellent organizational skills

Preferred qualifications

Experience working with AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes
Experience automating the software build and delivery process
Experience working on developer tools
Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with effective communication skills
Interest and ability to learn new software development skills and techniques

What We Offer

Work on a widely used product with a clear vision for the future
Contribute to leading solutions in the new industry of Developer Productivity Engineering
Close customer interaction with engineers from leading tech organizations
An automation-focused, test-driven engineering culture
Close collaboration with experienced and dedicated peer engineers
Opportunities for growth in technical and leadership responsibilities
In-person meetings, such as our annual company offsite and team meetings
Work from home in a remote-first environment
Competitive salaries and equity grants

Benefits & Perks

A focus on learning and development – Gradle offers an annual learning and development stipend and a monthly company-wide Learning Day, where we encourage all team members to focus on their professional development for the day
A hardware package that includes a laptop, monitor, other peripheral hardware, and a home office stipend to make sure you are fully set up to work remotely
Generous paid time off
Paid public holidays
Volunteer Day – We offer up to 8 hours of paid work time each year for team members to give back to their local communities

Location

Anywhere in the world with working conditions that allow for seamless collaboration with your colleagues through email, chat, and video streaming

How to apply

The following is required with your application:

Attach your Resume/CV and answer the required fields below
Create a build scan for any OSS project and tag it with backend-engineer

Next steps

After applying, familiarize yourself with the Develocity hiring process to understand the next steps.

About us

We are committed and skilled software engineers, product designers, and marketing experts who are passionate about developer productivity. We take pride in delivering products that are relied upon daily by some of the world’s leading software organizations, such as Netflix, LinkedIn, Airbnb, SAP, and X (formerly Twitter).

Our team is globally distributed but deeply connected. We value our interpersonal relationships as much as we value our achievements. We are a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other and together. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives.

Visit our careers page to learn more about the company and see other open positions. Visit Glassdoor to read what current and former Gradle employees have to say about the company.

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Listen to Marc Philipp describing his work on the Develocity Back-End Engineering team.