Sonalake is hiring a Backend Engineer (Java) to develop rock solid, efficient server-side applications. In this role, you'll work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to contribute to product innovation and help evolve our development standards.
What You'll Do
- Develop rock solid efficient server-side applications.
- Write clean, readable, well-commented, maintainable code.
- Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team with designers and other developers.
- Contribute to product innovation and our open source projects.
- Help evolve and improve our development standards, tooling, and processes.
What We're Looking For
- 3+ years hands-on software engineering experience.
- Have developed business applications using Java, Kotlin, Spring, Quarkus, Micronaut, Hibernate, JPA, logging and telemetry frameworks.
- Worked with Jenkins, Docker, Git and are very comfortable working from the Linux command line and with scripting languages.
- Have experience designing for and working with Amazon Web Services.
- Worked on teams that have shipped and operated critical software systems.
- Take pride in working on projects to successful completion involving a wide variety of technologies and systems.
- Thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts.
- Are a great communicator in English - both written and spoken.
- Thrive on a high level of autonomy and responsibility within a knowledge sharing culture.
- Are based in Slovakia, Poland or Hungary.
Nice to Have
- Experience in Camunda 7 is a big plus.
Technical Stack
- Java, Kotlin, Spring, Quarkus, Micronaut, Hibernate, JPA
- Logging and telemetry frameworks
- Jenkins, Docker, Git
- Linux command line, scripting languages
- Amazon Web Services
Team & Environment
You'll be part of a multi-disciplinary team with designers and other developers in a coaching culture.
Benefits & Compensation
- Remote-first approach with many team-building activities.
- Healthy work-life balance.
- Every Sonalaker gets a training budget and paid training days every year to upskill.
- Flat organisational structure with an emphasis on open, honest communication.
- Focus on innovation: run projects to evaluate new frameworks, create tools for internal use, contribute to open source, research new product uses.
- Indefinite period employment contract.
Work Mode
This role follows a hybrid model. You can work from our offices in Dublin, Poznan or Bratislava, or on a fully remote or hybrid basis. Candidates must be based in Slovakia, Poland or Hungary.
Sonalake is a people-oriented company committed to openness and opportunity.


