Senior Backend Software Engineer

LumApps is an AI-powered Employee Hub platform supporting digital transformation in communication, collaboration, and engagement for companies worldwide. It serves Fortune 500 clients and is recognized as a leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant and Forrester Wave for intranet solutions. LumApps has over 600 employees across 11 global offices and recently partnered with Beekeeper to expand its frontline employee experience solutions. The role is within the People & Growth Tribe, focusing on HR workflows, employee onboarding, and AI-powered HR solutions.

• Strong experience with Java or Python
• Experience building microservices and distributed systems
• Experience designing and building REST APIs
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience building systems in AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Ability to design scalable and maintainable systems
• Experience driving technical decisions across teams
• Strong system-level thinking and ability to evaluate architectural trade-offs
• Experience mentoring engineers and guiding design discussions
• Strong ownership and attention to detail
• Commitment to code quality, testing, and maintainability
• Pragmatic problem solver focused on delivering value
• Strong communication skills in English

Nice to have:

• Event-driven architectures (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• Data streaming or processing systems (Debezium, ClickHouse)
• Authentication and authorization (SAML, OAuth2, OIDC)
• Observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK)
• Experience building large-scale SaaS platforms
• Exposure to AI or LLM integrations

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services
• Help shape the architecture and technical direction of backend systems within the tribe
• Drive technical initiatives that span multiple teams
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
• Deploy, monitor, and optimize services in production
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, QA, and engineers to deliver impactful features
• Mentor engineers and promote strong engineering practices
• Identify and address technical debt and foundational improvements
• Help maintain reliable and secure systems, including participation in on-call rotations