Senior Backend Engineer

We are looking for Senior Back-end Engineer – Operations & Customer Service.

About the Role:

As Scentbird continues to grow, so does the need to scale our operations and customer service infrastructure. To support this growth, we’re expanding our small but essential back-office engineering team—a group focused on building and maintaining internal tools and back-end services that directly impact operational efficiency and customer lifetime value.

We’re looking for a Senior Back-end Engineer to join this team and lead critical initiatives across subscription management, order fulfillment, warehouse integration, and customer support tooling. This role will focus heavily on designing scalable back-end services and APIs that integrate with internal systems and external platforms to drive automation, accuracy, and speed across operational workflows.

What You’ll Be Responsible For:

• Design, build, and maintain back-end services that support order processing, subscription billing, customer service tools, and warehouse logistics.

• Develop scalable, well-documented APIs that integrate with internal dashboards and third-party systems.

• Collaborate with your product manager to break down requirements and shape implementation plans.

• Continuously improve reliability and data flow across systems through better integration and architecture.

• Contribute to internal standards for code quality, maintainability, and performance through code reviews and mentorship.

• Identify and address technical debt and performance bottlenecks.

• Confidently own features from proposal through development, testing, deployment, and monitoring.

What You’ll Need to Have:

• 7+ years of professional back-end engineering experience, ideally in high-scale, production environments.

• Strong Java expertise, with demonstrated familiarity with recent Java releases and a preference for using modern language/runtime features.

• Deep understanding of service communication patterns and protocols, especially GraphQL and gRPC—including when/why GraphQL is preferable to REST, and the purpose, performance characteristics, and tradeoffs of gRPC.

• Strong experience designing and building scalable APIs and backend services in distributed systems.

• Solid knowledge of relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL (schema design, indexing, query optimization, transactional behavior).

• Strong cloud experience, preferably AWS, including real-world use of managed services and production-grade deployments.

• Nice to have / plus: practical familiarity with Kubernetes and containerized environments, with the expectation that you understand Kubernetes first as a user/operator (deploying, debugging, observing services) rather than only theory.

• Experience with Micronaut (preferred) or Quarkus, or a clear understanding of how Micronaut/Quarkus differ from Spring Boot and why those differences matter in production (startup time, memory footprint, AOT/DI approach, etc.).

• Nice to have: Redis experience (caching, queues, rate limiting, etc.).

• Plus: experience with telemetry and observability standards such as OpenTelemetry.
  

What We’ll Love About You:

• You clearly and concisely communicate technical, architectural, and organizational problems and propose iterative, practical solutions.

• You keep stakeholders aligned through consistent, effective communication and regular status updates.

• You’re self-motivated, organized, and able to work independently and cross-functionally in a fully remote setup.

• You take initiative, give and receive feedback well, and are comfortable mentoring others.

• You bring a solution-oriented mindset and a collaborative, low-ego approach to teamwork.

• You care about code quality, maintainability, and helping your team continuously improve.

• Proficiency in written and spoken English, suitable for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment.

What You’ll Love About Us:

• Competitive base compensation.

• Bonus program.

• Paid Time Off and Work From Home.

• A fun, creative and energetic work environment.

About Scentbird

Scentbird inspires fragrance lovers to go beyond the ordinary and sample scents that evoke passion, confidence, and the unknown. Our mission is to revolutionize the way we perfume by bringing the ultimate fragrance playground right to your fingertips and offering a digital subscription service that lets members choose from over 900+ designer perfumes each month.