As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will contribute to the design and evolution of distributed backend systems that power the end-to-end protection lifecycle from eligibility and quoting to purchase, servicing, claims, cancellations, refunds, reporting, and reconciliation.
This is a backend/platform-focused engineering role centered around APIs, integrations, scalability, operational excellence, and distributed systems.
What You'll Do:
- Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs using JVM technologies such as Java or Kotlin, and Spring Boot.
- Develop integration layers with third-party insurance and assurance providers.
- Build systems supporting the full Trip Protection lifecycle, including eligibility, quoting, purchase, servicing, claims, cancellations, and refunds.
- Design clean, maintainable, observable, and testable software using sound software engineering principles and design patterns.
- Create APIs and backend workflows consumed by multiple internal and external partners.
- Contribute to architecture and technical design discussions for moderately complex distributed systems.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, platform, compliance, finance, and partner teams.
- Support production systems through monitoring, debugging, troubleshooting, and operational improvements.
- Participate in code reviews and help guide engineering best practices across the team.
- Contribute to reporting, reconciliation, and operational data flows required to support the business.
- Work closely with stakeholders to deliver scalable platform capabilities across multiple markets and lines of business.
What you'll bring to us:
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with a Bachelor’s degree, or 3+ years with a Master’s degree.
- Strong backend engineering experience building and operating production systems at scale.
- Strong proficiency in JVM-based technologies, where Java and Kotlin are preferred, and Spring Boot.
- Experience designing and building APIs and integrations between distributed systems.
- Experience working with cloud-native architectures in public or hybrid cloud environments.
- Strong understanding of microservices, asynchronous processing, and service-oriented architectures.
- Experience with SQL and/or NoSQL databases and scalable data access patterns.
- Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, alerting, and production troubleshooting.
- Ability to design maintainable, modular, and testable systems with strong operational awareness.
- Understanding of software design principles, data structures, and distributed systems fundamentals.
- Experience working in agile engineering teams and collaborating across organizational boundaries.
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills in complex production environments.
- Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly across engineering and business stakeholders.
Nice to Have
- Experience in travel, fintech, insurance, e-commerce, or other highly regulated domains.
- Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging systems.
- Familiarity with compliance-sensitive systems and operational workflows.
- Exposure to frontend/customer-facing flows is a plus, but this role is primarily backend/platform focused.
Location:
- Madrid, Spain: Hybrid model, 3 days per week in the office
Some of the benefits you’ll enjoy working with us:
- The chance to join an organization with triple-digit growth that is changing the paradigm on how software products are built.
- The opportunity to form part of an amazing, multicultural community of tech experts.
- A highly competitive compensation package.
- Medical insurance.
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Skills Required
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with a Bachelor's degree
- Strong backend engineering experience building and operating production systems at scale
- Strong proficiency in JVM-based technologies, including Java and Kotlin
- Experience designing and building APIs and integrations between distributed systems
- Experience with SQL and/or NoSQL databases and scalable data access patterns
What We Do
At Parser we help organisations leverage on digital to advance their business strategy. For us, creativity, talent, and passion are indispensable to succeed. This is why we are committed to building, nurturing, and empowering a diverse, multi-disciplinary environment, where every team member can grow professionally and achieve their ambitions, while helping our clients deliver amazing digital products. Thanks to our flexible, distributed model of global operation and the high calibre of our experts, we have enjoyed triple digit growth over the past five years, creating amazing career opportunities for our people across 4 continents. Our services: - Digital Strategy & Transformation We help you understand market trends, relevant technologies, and aligned with your business strategy we create your vision and set the digital direction. This enables you to focus efforts and integrate business and technology across your organisation. - Digital Portfolio Management Based on a clear vision and direction, we help you assess your position, execute your digital strategy and manage your portfolio. We do this by integrating a range of diverse business and technical practises, transforming your organisation in the process. - Product & Service Development We help you create new experiences by designing user journeys that bridge all of the relevant departments of your organisation. By harnessing our ecosystem of specialised talent, we can provide relevant and focused expertise on demand.
