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Secfix · 4 months ago

Senior Product Engineer (Backend, Java) - Europe

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

5+ years exp

Secfix is an early-stage fully remote startup focused on automating security compliance for small and medium-sized businesses in Europe. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will play a key role in shaping and delivering products that help customers achieve compliance efficiently, while also mentoring junior engineers and collaborating closely with various teams.

B2BBusiness DevelopmentCloud SecurityComplianceCyber SecurityInformation TechnologyPenetration TestingSmall and Medium Businesses

Responsibilities

You’ll be the go-to person for all things backend in your product area

You’ll work closely with the CTO and the Tech Lead to set technical direction

You’ll work closely with our product and design teams and with our customers to identify, plan, design, build and ship features on schedule

You’ll deploy, monitor, troubleshoot, debug, support, maintain and evolve features and code under your responsibility

You’ll leverage AI-powered engineering tools (Cursor, Claude, etc.) to accelerate development, debugging, and testing

You’ll own and maintain product and technical documentation

You’ll support other team members on your area of expertise, mentor and develop junior engineers

You’ll follow company's culture and communication guidelines

Live by our values https://www.secfix.com/about-us

Qualification

JavaSpring BootRelational Database DesignGolangTypescriptAI-powered engineering toolsCode reviewsSoftware design communicationMentoringRemote collaboration

Required

5-8 years of industry experience as a backend or product engineer, building user-facing products

Strong object oriented programming fundamentals in Java

Spring Boot, Hibernate (or equivalent) experience

Relational Database Design and SQL optimisation

Testing, monitoring and troubleshooting

Ability to design and build backend systems that can scale both in supported features and concurrent usage

Previous experience with Golang and/or Typescript is a bonus

Experience with owning features end-to-end, from idea to execution to delivery in production

Experience with communicating software design ideas and adapting to feedback before jumping into coding

Extensive experience with AI-powered engineering tools (Cursor, Claude), you know their strengths, weaknesses, and how to validate outputs

You're ambitious, independent and growth-oriented

You're comfortable with startup life ambiguity, adapting to changing priorities based on customer and market feedback, and wearing multiple hats

You bring senior talent to our team with 5+ years of equivalent experience

You're comfortable collaborating and communicating in a remote environment, especially in writing and with Loom. You understand that working independently doesn't mean working alone. Remember, it requires more pro-active communication than working in the office

You can mentor other developers and do code reviews

You know how to balance speed and quality and how to build leverage in your work through automation, abstractions and good software design and architecture

You're excited not only to use AI tools like Cursor, or Claude Code consciously — not just for speed, but for better design, refactoring, and testing but also building AI tools