Staff Backend Engineer
what3words10 hours ago
Hanoi, VietnamStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and scale robust backend services and solutions.
- Deliver product roadmap features and own them end-to-end through production.
- Design and evolve distributed microservices, including service boundaries, API contracts, and resilience.
- Run services using Docker and Kubernetes in AWS or a similar cloud environment.
- Diagnose production issues and improve observability, latency, scalability, and availability.
- Set technical direction, make pragmatic architecture decisions, and raise engineering standards across teams.
- Collaborate with product managers, QA, and other engineers.
Requirements
- Excellent Java programming skills and significant experience with the Spring ecosystem.
- Commercial experience with SQL and database schema design.
- Experience designing and evolving microservices and distributed systems.
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS or a similar cloud environment.
- Ability to make sound trade-offs involving latency, scalability, and availability.
- Ability to work autonomously, own features end-to-end, and communicate effectively in spoken and written English.
- A product mindset, strong attention to detail, and the ability to provide technical leadership.
- Experience with Python, FastAPI, and LLM APIs is a plus.
- Experience with voice AI models is a plus.
- Experience with agentic AI workflows for software development is a plus.
Benefits
- Competitive salary.
- Flexible working with up to two days per week from home for the engineering team.
- Six-week annual remote-work allowance from anywhere in the world while working the main office timezone.
- Role based in the HCMC office, with the option to work from the office five days per week.
- 25 days of holiday with the option to buy more.
- Share options.
- Private health insurance.
- Wellbeing days.
- Generous parental leave and family-friendly policies.
- Employee Assistance Programme.
- Lunch and learn sessions.
- Team social budget.
About what3words
what3words builds a global addressing system that assigns three-word identifiers to 3m x 3m squares, delivered via mobile apps, APIs and SDKs for businesses, governments and consumers. It licenses its location technology to logistics, ecommerce, navigation and emergency services and is integrated into in-car navigation systems in millions of vehicles. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in London, the company operates globally and is privately held.