Senior Software Engineer- Backend

Overview Senior Software Engineer - Backend at Camunda, focusing on Optimize and Analytics integration. 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. As a fully remote, global company, Camunda emphasizes flexible work and meaningful impact. This role is part of a team that measures, improves, and scales performance and fault tolerance in distributed systems, across Java services and React interfaces. What You’ll Be Doing Collaborate with reliability experts to measure, quantify, and clearly 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, product architecture, and codebase understanding. Implement, validate, and roll out performance improvements in stages—profiling, tuning, and verification 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, learn daily, and improve robustness. Interest and practical intuition for 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 a focus on performance and fault tolerance. Willingness to use Camunda products and approach reliability from a user’s perspective. Ability and willingness to use our product. Nice-to-haves Experience with high‑throughput, low‑latency distributed SaaS products in production. Hands‑on experience with distributed data stores and practical CAP theorem trade‑offs. OpenSearch/Elasticsearch experience including performance tuning. Exposure to modern cloud operations (Kubernetes, Operators, Helm charts), including monitoring and production troubleshooting. Experience with load testing and iterative tuning to improve reliability, throughput, and system performance. Compensation & Benefits The Annual Total Target Cash (base salary + 100% variable target, where applicable) ranges by location, with adjustments for market level. Offers depend on skills, experience, and location, with typical initial offers within the stated range to allow for growth. 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 If based elsewhere, you’ll be hired via Remote.com (global employer partner) and receive a personalized Total Rewards Calculator after the first interview. Equity is offered where applicable through our Virtual Stock Option Plan (VSOP). Benefits include remote and flexible work, health and wellbeing programs, retirement plans, professional growth budgets, and global/local perks designed to support employees wherever they are based. Everyone is welcome at Camunda. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diverse cultures and backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to gender, race, ethnicity, religion, belief, sexual orientation, age, disability, or any other protected characteristic. Come join us and be part of Camunda’s incredible journey: make an impact at a pivotal moment in our story. Seniority level Mid-Senior level Employment type Full-time Job function Engineering and Information Technology Industries: Software Development #J-18808-Ljbffr