Back End Developer

Adobe Analytics powers data-driven decision making for many global enterprises. The platform enables organizations to collect, process, and analyze customer interaction data across digital channels.

The
Customer Journey Analytics (CJA) Stitching team
builds the systems that unify and process data from multiple sources to create consistent, real-time customer journeys.

The platform coordinates data ingestion, identity stitching, and analytics processing across multiple data sources. The system processes customer interaction data and transforms it into unified analytics datasets used across Adobe Experience Cloud.

As a
Senior Backend Engineer
, you will design and evolve the distributed systems and data pipelines that power these capabilities.

What You’ll Work On

• Design and build data processing pipelines using Java / Scala and Spark
• Develop systems responsible for customer identity stitching and data aggregation
• Design and optimize distributed data processing workflows
• Contribute to architecture and system design decisions
• Improve pipeline reliability, observability, and performance
• Work with multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) and infrastructure-as-code tools
• Own services through the full lifecycle — from design and implementation to production operations
• Collaborate with engineers, architects, and product teams across Adobe Analytics

Technology Stack
Examples of technologies used across the platform include:

• Java / JVM ecosystem
• Scala and Apache Spark
• Databricks
• Kafka and distributed data pipelines
• Cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of backend or data platform engineering experience
• Strong expertise in Java or Scala
• Experience building distributed systems or data processing pipelines
• Experience with Spark or large-scale data processing frameworks
• Experience working with cloud infrastructure
• Strong understanding of system reliability, performance, and observability

Nice to Have

• Experience with Kafka or event-driven architectures
• Experience with modern data platforms (Iceberg, Hadoop ecosystem, etc.)
• Experience working with Databricks
• Experience contributing to architecture decisions and mentoring engineers

Why Engineers Join This Team

• Work on core analytics infrastructure used by enterprise customers
• Solve data processing and distributed systems challenges
• Build systems powering real-time journey analytics
• Collaborate with experienced engineers across Adobe’s global engineering teams

Engineering Environment
Engineers on this team work on
production systems running in modern cloud environments
, using:

• Frameworks for processing data across distributed systems
• Event-driven architectures
• Cloud-native infrastructure
• Large-scale analytics pipelines

If you enjoy building
reliable backend systems and data platforms
used across multiple products and services, let’s talk!

About Adobe
Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe’s industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity.

Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We’re on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours.

Let’s Adobe together
At Adobe, we believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. Learn more about Adobe life, including our values and culture, focus on people, purpose and community, Adobe for All, comprehensive benefits programs, the stories we tell, the customers we serve, and how you can help us advance our mission of empowering everyone to create.

Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. Learn more.

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Description
Our client is a performance rights organization in the United States. It collects blanket license fees from businesses that use music, entitling those businesses to play or sync any songs from the client’s repertoire of over 22.4 million musical works. On a regular basis, the client distributes the money to songwriters, composers, and music publishers as royalties to those members whose works have been performed.

Requirements
Work arrangement: Hybrid — 1 day in the office in Bucharest every two weeks.

• 5+ years of hands-on experience building web applications using Node.js, Express, React Solid experience with Node.js and React.
• Experience in upgrading Node.js version
• Proven track record with Express.js routing, middleware design, error handling, and API security best practices.
• Proficiency in RESTful API design and development
• Proficiency in cloud deployment technologies, with a preference for Azure
• Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL databases
• Proficiency with Git, GitHub/GitLab branching workflows, and pull request reviews.
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and cloud services
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) and automated deployment strategies.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Excellent problem-solving abilities, a product-minded attitude, and clear technical communication skills.
• Fluent in English

Job responsibilities

• Help identify, scope, and migrate legacy features to modern stacks using Node.js
• Design, build, and maintain robust, scalable RESTful APIs and server-side logic using Node.js and Express.js.
• Architect and implement modern, responsive user interfaces using React.js.
• Design database schemas, write efficient queries, and manage data integrations using SQL or NoSQL databases.
• System Integration: Connect third-party services, and external APIs with secure authorization mechanisms.
• Ensure code quality through thoughtful practices, including unit testing, peer reviews, and documentation
• Proactively identify ways to reduce complexity or improve performance across the system
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize front-end rendering speed and back-end throughput for high traffic applications.
• Participate in code reviews, sprint planning, and architectural discussions within an Agile framework.

What we offer

Empowering Projects:
With 500+ clients spanning diverse industries and domains, we provide an exciting opportunity to contribute to groundbreaking projects that leverage cutting-edge technologies. As a team, we engineer digital products that positively impact people’s lives.

Empowering Growth:
We foster a culture of continuous learning and professional development. Our dedication is to provide timely and comprehensive assistance for every consultant through our dedicated Learning & Development team, ensuring their continuous growth and success.

DE&I Matters:
At GlobalLogic, we deeply value and embrace
diversity
. We are dedicated to providing
equal
opportunities for all individuals, fostering an
inclusive
and empowering work environment.

Career Development:
Our corporate culture places a strong emphasis on career development, offering abundant opportunities for growth. Regular interactions with our teams ensure their engagement, motivation, and recognition. We empower our team members to pursue their career goals with confidence and enthusiasm.

Comprehensive Benefits:
In addition to equitable compensation, we provide a comprehensive benefits package that prioritizes the overall well-being of our consultants. We genuinely care about their health and strive to create a positive work environment.

Flexible Opportunities:
At GlobalLogic, we prioritize work-life balance by offering flexible opportunities tailored to your lifestyle. Explore relocation and rotation options for diverse cultural and professional experiences in different countries with our company.

About GlobalLogic
GlobalLogic, a Hitachi Group Company, is a trusted digital engineering partner to the world’s largest and most forward-thinking companies. Since 2000, we’ve been at the forefront of the digital revolution – helping create some of the most innovative and widely used digital products and experiences. Today we continue to collaborate with clients in transforming businesses and redefining industries through intelligent products, platforms, and services.

As an engineer focused on backend systems at Alchemy, you'll be working with one of the most sophisticated and high-throughput distributed systems in the blockchain world. You'll focus on architecting and building new systems as well as improving existing ones for a platform that supports millions of users globally. You'll have the autonomy to shape technical solutions, influence architectural decisions, and own services throughout their lifecycle.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and maintain backend infrastructure, APIs, and services at scale.
• Own the architecture and implementation of distributed systems behind high-volume, low-latency APIs.
• Solve hard scalability, latency, and performance problems in live production systems.
• Lead system design discussions and shape the direction of our backend architecture.
• Set the best practices for backend development—throughput, reliability, and latency.
• Validate performance through automated testing, benchmarking, and production-driven improvements.
• Trace production issues across services and the full stack, and ship fixes that durably improve reliability.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of relevant industry experience.
• BS/BA degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience designing, building, scaling, and maintaining core backend components
• Ability to solve complex design, scalability, latency, or performance problems in high-throughput, low-latency production systems.
• Production experience with Java, Rust
• Experience in cloud-native environments, particularly AWS.
• Experience with managed Kubernetes platforms such as Amazon EKS is a plus.
• Comfortable working across the stack, with a willingness to dive into infrastructure and platform challenges when the problem calls for it.
• Experience building highly available and scalable distributed systems.
• You're a self-starter who takes ownership, moves fast, and knows when to obsess over the details—and when it's time to ship.
• Curiosity about emerging technologies and a desire to continuously learn and explore new ideas.
• Web3 experience, a plus
• Founded a company or built side projects, a plus
• Experience in startups, a plus

Benefits & Perks
🏥 Private Health Insurance

💪 Gym Reimbursement

🚅 Commuter Benefits

🌴 Flexible Time Off

🥙 In-Office Group Meals

🧠 Learning & Development Stipend

🌎 Company Sponsored Conferences & Events

🎧 Books & Audiobook subscription with Bookster

THE ROLE & THE TEAM
At Zalando, we combine startup energy with the scale of an industry leader, powered by an international team from 140+ nations. We believe diverse perspectives lead to sharper thinking and better results, encouraging everyone to raise the bar, take ownership, innovate and bring their authentic selves to work.

Zalando Bucharest is our newest site, playing a vital role in optimising our AI-driven infrastructure and driving operational efficiency alongside our Berlin headquarters. We’re looking for professionals who thrive on continuous improvement, automation and collaborative problem-solving to help us deliver exceptional customer experiences at scale.

As a Software Engineer in the ERP Engineering department, you are part of the central Zalando Technology Foundation (ZTF), which supports a variety of Zalando business areas. Our team builds and operates the integration backbone that connects SAP with the wider Zalando ecosystem.

As a Software Engineer, you contribute hands-on to the solutions we build and operate. You develop and maintain our data integration pipelines, keep a close eye on their health in production, and help ensure they run reliably day to day. You'll grow your skills alongside an experienced team and contribute to the ongoing success of our ERP Engineering department.

INCLUSIVE BY DESIGN
If you think you have what it takes, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every single requirement. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles!

At Zalando, our vision is to be the leading European technology platform for fashion and lifestyle – one that thrives on diversity and is truly inclusive by design. We believe that diverse teams fuel innovation and creativity.

We actively seek out talent from all backgrounds and try to reduce bias in our hiring and employment processes, focusing on your qualifications, skills and contributions. To support this, we kindly ask that you refrain from including personal details such as your photo, age or marital status in your CV, ensuring a fair and equitable evaluation based solely on your abilities and potential.

We are committed to providing an exceptional and accessible candidate experience for everyone. If you require any accommodations to support you throughout the hiring process, please let us know – we are here to assist you.

Discover more about our commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace https //jobs.zalando.com/en/our-culture/diversity-and-inclusion

What We'd Love You To Do (and Love Doing)

• Build and maintain efficient, reliable transactional data integration solutions
• Monitor our data pipelines and integrations, proactively spotting and resolving issues to keep them running smoothly in production
• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs and event-driven integrations to ensure seamless data exchange between applications and services
• Support the day-to-day operations and maintenance of our services, including troubleshooting and performance improvements
• Collaborate with cross-functional and platform teams to identify and address system integration challenges.

WE'D LOVE TO MEET YOU IF…

• 4+ years of hands-on experience in Java programming
• Solid experience with the Spring framework (or a comparable Java ecosystem); experience with Spring Batch is a plus
• Experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs and integration solutions
• Hands-on experience with Kafka or a similar distributed streaming/event framework
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) processes
• Proficiency with databases such as PostgreSQL, including writing and tuning queries
• Strong expertise in unit testing and test-driven development
• Familiarity with "infrastructure as code" best practices and tools
• Familiarity with AWS and Kubernetes (K8s) is considered an advantage
• Good communication skills with the ability to adapt to different contexts and audiences
• Team player mentality with a willingness to share knowledge within teams

If you think you have what it takes, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every single requirement. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles!

OUR OFFER

• Experience the financial backing, market stability and massive operational structure of the leading European technology platform for fashion and lifestyle, combined with the autonomy, agility and risk-taking spirit of a founder.
• Work on a scale where your daily technical choices, architecture decisions and code deployment directly shape the experience of over 60 million active users across Europe.
• Our open and collaborative tech radar is a shared platform that inspires our teams to pick the best technologies for new projects, reflect on technical decisions and continuously evolve our software development landscape.
• Drive your development through our training platform and biannual peer-to-peer review.