Senior Software Engineer- Backend

Overview Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Optimize and Analytics Integration at Camunda. Join to apply for the Senior Software Engineer - Backend - Optimize and Analytics Integration role at Camunda. Camunda is a leader in enterprise agentic automation, orchestrating complex business processes across agents, people, and systems. We deliver trusted AI-enabled agents for business-critical processes with built-in governance. Over 700 leading innovators rely on Camunda to shorten time-to-value and improve operational efficiency and customer experiences. This is a fully remote, global role. About The Role: As a Senior Software Engineer, Backend at Camunda, you’ll help shape our next-generation analytics product for process orchestration—building reliable, high-throughput SaaS capabilities that turn massive data flows into clear insights and action. You’ll work end-to-end across Java services and React interfaces, collaborating with a global team to measure, improve, and scale performance and fault tolerance in distributed systems. If you love learning fast and making meaningful, iterative improvements, this role is for you. Curious about the challenges you’ll work on at Camunda? Watch a quick 30-minute talk from our engineers to learn about the new Camunda Exporter and how we’re solving problems at scale. What You’ll Be Doing Collaborate with reliability experts to measure, quantify, and articulate the load, throughput, and performance characteristics of our analytics platform (Optimize), and translate findings into action. Propose an iterative roadmap for performance and fault-tolerance improvements based on metrics and a deep understanding of the product architecture and codebase. Implement, validate, and roll out performance improvements in stages—profiling, tuning, and verifying impacts in production-like conditions. Design and build backend APIs (Java) and frontend dashboards (React) to retrieve, aggregate, and visualize analytics data from distributed data stores. Create data exporters and connectors enabling third-party BI tools to pull detailed analytics from multiple distributed instances, safely and efficiently. Raise the engineering bar by contributing to code quality, test automation, observability, and collaborative design reviews. What You Bring 5+ years as a full-stack Software Engineer with strong production experience in Java and React. Curiosity and resilience in distributed systems—eager to experiment and improve robustness. Interest in building high-throughput SaaS platforms that process large, continuous data volumes. Drive to design and build an enterprise-grade analytics product—from data ingestion through aggregation to clear, insightful UIs. Pragmatic, autonomous problem-solver focused on measurable outcomes and continuous improvement, with emphasis on performance and fault tolerance. Willingness to use Camunda products and approach reliability from a user’s perspective. Ability and/or willingness to use our product. Nice-to-Haves Experience with high-throughput, low-latency distributed SaaS products in production. Hands-on work with distributed data stores and practical trade-offs related to the CAP theorem. OpenSearch/Elasticsearch experience including performance tuning. Exposure to modern cloud operations (Kubernetes, Operators, Helm, monitoring, and troubleshooting in production). Experience with load testing and iterative tuning to improve reliability and performance. Compensation & Benefits Compensation: We offer competitive, fair, and transparent compensation. Salary ranges are location-based, with Standard and Major markets reflecting local competition. The Annual Total Target Cash (base salary + 100% variable target, where applicable) spans from the minimum in a Standard market to the maximum in a Major market. Final offers depend on skills, experience, and location, typically within the first half of the range to allow growth. Examples by region: United States: $119,900 to $193,200; Germany: €77,400 to €128,100; United Kingdom: £75,300 to £123,800; Singapore: S$148,900 to S$223,300. Equity: We offer equity (where applicable) through our Virtual Stock Option Plan (VSOP). Benefits & Perks: Remote & Flexible work, health and wellbeing programs, financial security, professional growth allowances, and global/local benefits. Details vary by country and location. Inclusion: “Everyone is welcome at Camunda.” We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on gender, race, ethnicity, religion, belief, sexual orientation, age, disability, or any other protected characteristics. We look forward to your application #J-18808-Ljbffr