Backend Software Engineer, Collaboration Platform

About the team

The Canvas Backend Team aims to provide standardized, programmatic interfaces and access patterns that enable the manipulation of Canvas at scale following a well-defined data-model. This includes directly manipulating a single widget, loading widget data at scale, and receiving real-time updates about changes that happen on boards or widgets. 

About the role 

We’re looking for a Backend Engineer who will help us achieve ambitious goals. We expect you to have a strong software engineering experience, readiness to drive change and experiment in search of the best solution, an understanding of how to work with big loads, and be able to scale it. Be responsible for the important parts of the code and be willing to take on difficult challenges, collaborate with teams across Miro to provide well-defined and extendable interfaces on Canvas model data.

What you’ll do

• Create high quality technical design and high quality, self-documented code
• Design and implement scalable and high-performing solutions with concurrency and fault-tolerance in mind
• Optimize application performance and scalability, identifying areas for improvement and implementing necessary enhancements.
• Design and implement flexible but stable and future-proof data access patterns and contracts (APIs, events)
• Take long-term ownership for feature/subsystem
• Write exception-safe mission-critical code that has no right to crash
• Collaborate with teams across Miro to improve our product, architecture, and engineering practices

What you’ll need

• 5+ years of backend development experience. We use Java 17, Kotlin and Spring (+Spring Boot). Java ecosystem is preferable, but other languages aren't blockers ( C#, C++)
• 5+ years of experience building robust, high-scale, distributed systems in production environments
• Proficient in REST, WebSockets for real-time communication
• Familiarity with cloud architecture, with preference given to experience with AWS.
• Understanding of high-load architecture and SaaS infrastructure
• Understanding of Apache Kafka or equivalent messaging systems
• Proficient in multithreading concepts in Java, including thread management, thread pools, and their impact on system resources and performance

What’s in it for you

• Competitive equity package
• Health insurance for you and your family
• Breakfast, lunch, snacks, and drinks provided in the office
• Wellbeing benefit and WFH equipment allowance
• Annual learning and development allowance to grow your skills and career
• Opportunity to work for a globally diverse team
• Travel allowance for your commute