Backend Java Developer

• Vienna

• Hybrid

• Hourly salary: $65 - $75

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Analyze application source code, architecture, APIs, integrations, and backend services to understand system behavior and identify improvement opportunities.
• Provide technical analysis and recommendations for complex engineering and application challenges.
• Review solution designs and implementation approaches with engineering teams.
• Influence technical decisions that improve scalability, resiliency, performance, maintainability, and long-term sustainability.
• Identify, document, and help prioritize technical debt and modernization opportunities.
• Evaluate technologies, frameworks, architectural patterns, and development approaches.
• Support cloud adoption, application modernization, and application lifecycle improvement initiatives.
• Establish and promote reusable engineering patterns, standards, and technical best practices.
• Partner with Security teams and engineering teams to promote secure software development and security-by-design principles.
• Help address application vulnerabilities, penetration-test findings, security gaps, and technical risks.
• Review application authentication, authorization, encryption, secrets management, and API security practices.
• Support threat modeling and secure software development lifecycle (SSDLC) activities.
• Analyze technical risks and identify potential issues before they become production problems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve complex technical dependencies and integration challenges.
• Develop technical documentation, architecture guidance, playbooks, standards, and knowledge-sharing materials.
• Communicate complex technical concepts and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Continuously identify opportunities to improve engineering practices, application quality, and platform sustainability.