Senior Product Engineer (Backend, Java) at Secfix

📋 Description

• Own system design on major projects and drive to production.
• Lead multi-tenant evolution; design scalable architecture.
• Build our first AI product; define backend and lead architecture.
• Lay foundations for agentic AI; guide autonomous workflows.
• Bring AI-assisted engineering to the team; evaluate Cursor/Claude and share learnings.
• Grow with the team; mentor engineers and help solve hard problems.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of OOP backend engineering; owned large systems end-to-end.
• Experience building or integrating AI/ML features in production.
• Practical experience with LLMs and RAG pipelines, context management.
• Strong OOP fundamentals; Spring Boot, Hibernate.
• Experience leading system design on significant projects.
• Relational database design and SQL optimization.
• Strong written comms; async across timezones; CET/CEST.

🎁 Benefits

• Remote: 100% remote with Gather virtual office.
• Salary: Local market rates per GitLab pay philosophy.
• Equity: Generous ownership package.
• Development budget: €1,000/year.
• Holidays: 26 days + local holidays.
• Health insurance: Comprehensive coverage.