As a Backend Engineer, you independently plan, develop, implement and test software programs that are easy to maintain, modular, well documented, and resource efficient
As a Backend Engineer, you will:
- Be a core member of the Backend Engineering team and maintain our best-in-class product, a Java based micro-services architecture that is fully cloud hosted on AWS.
- Work alongside other engineers on the team to maintain technology standards and participate actively in code reviews, assisting with the application of standards around i.e. software quality, security, and correctness.
- Perform operational procedures, including ongoing maintenance, on runtime systems, both manual and automated, in accordance with company standards.
- Participate in the broader process of defining system architecture - both in terms of software and systems.
- Provide recommendations for continuous improvement to the product and delivery process.
Our Technical Environment
- Our next generation payments platform has been developed using Java – specifically leveraging the Spring Boot framework
- Our infrastructure is hosted on AWS; using a mixture of containerization (Fargate) and vanilla EC2
- We use Amazon MQ (RabbitMQ) as message broker to enable asynchronous communication between services
- Our systems are secure and highly available – we have implemented passive and active monitoring and incident escalation using a combination of Datadog, CloudWatch Logs and Metrics, Postman, and Pagerduty
- We utilise GraphQL (leveraging Apollo and Hasura) to open up our rich data model to internal and external stakeholders
- We develop frontend systems using the Vue, Angular, and Ionic frameworks
- We aggregate and analyze logs from all of our systems via the ELK stack
- Our operating system of choice is CentOS and our DevSecOps team is fanatical about security, monitoring, and patch management
- Our infrastructure is immutable and managed using IaC principles via Terraform
- We leverage build automation (specifically CircleCI), and we’re working toward continuous deployment across all environments
- We take advantage of AWS services to meet our various technology requirements:
- PostgreSQL databases run on Aurora Serverless or Aurora clusters managed via RDS
- Redis clusters are managed via ElastiCache
- KMS provides managed security services
- AWS Lambda and API Gateway support our serverless infrastructure; DynamoDB is also an important part of our stack
- We utilise highly durable messaging technologies such as SQS, Kinesis, Amazon MQ and AWS EventBridge
Requirements
- 5+ years’ software development or programming experience, with an in-depth understanding of distributed systems
- Good working experience with Java(8 or later), with experince in Spring Boot Framework and SQL
- Solid grasp of computer science fundamentals, specifically data structures and algorithms.
- Working knowledge of a modern software development lifecycle management methodology, such as SCRUM
- Generous salary package
- Gym subsidies
- Casual dress code
- Flexible working arrangements (including work from home and remote)
- Delicious office snacks
- Guidance and mentoring from leaders within the business
- Dynamic, positive work environment
- Fantastic team culture
Top Skills
What We Do
Ezypay is an award-winning fintech company that specialises in processing subscription and recurring payments. Since 1996, Ezypay has helped local Australian and New Zealand businesses generate revenue and settle complex financial scenarios with repeat customers the easy way. To date, Ezypay has processed over $3 billion worth of subscription payments.
Our cloud-based payment platform offers a suite of easy-to-use subscription management services to process recurring direct debit payments across multiple sites, multiple payment methods, and multiple currencies. Core features include generation and automation of dynamic subscription plans, omni-channel customer sign-ups, scheduled payments, invoicing, failed payment handling, and reporting.
Ezypay’s modern cloud-based architecture runs in a secure AWS environment and has a suite of open APIs for software integration partners to leverage the billing platform as part of their own offering. Use it as stand alone solution or integrate it into your existing business software.
With offices in Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia, generating recurring revenue globally becomes easy. Ezypay currently processes payments in 9 countries across the Asia Pacific region (Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea) and is continually expanding.
We're the easy choice for taking recurring payments.
Currently collecting subscription payments in:
*Australia
*New Zealand
*Malaysia
*Singapore
*Philippines
*Hong Kong
*South Korea
*Taiwan
