# Senior / Lead Backend Java Engineer at AssureSoft - Careers

> Bolivia · Staff · Backend · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Aassuresoften%3A4724865006 (read 2026-11-08).

## Facts (observed)

- Company: [AssureSoft - Careers](https://alderhq.app/companies/assuresoft-careers)
- Location text: LATAM; Bolivia
- Where it can be done from (inferred): Bolivia (evidence: "Location: LATAM; Bolivia")
- Posted: 2026-10-26 (13 days ago)
- First seen by alder: 2026-11-04 · last verified: 2026-11-06
- Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times
- Apply on the employer's site: https://www.assuresoft.com/careers/open-positions/jobs/e_board/4724865006?gh_jid=4724865006
- Skills listed (inferred): Java, MySQL, AWS, SQL, Distributed systems

## Pay and sponsorship

- Posted pay: not posted

## Description (the employer's text)

The key to our success is simple; we deliver the highest quality, on time, with passion and commitment, and live every day by a set of great values. We've built a company that fosters long-term careers in an environment of continuous learning, with cutting-edge benefits, tools, and resources. In addition, certifications that endorse our company as a great place to work.

### Responsibilities

Technical Ownership & Leadership

- Take end-to-end technical ownership of significant backend systems, features, and integrations.
- Translate ambiguous business requirements into well-designed, scalable technical solutions.
- Lead technical design discussions and make or influence decisions involving architecture, frameworks, APIs, data models, performance, and implementation approaches.
- Identify technical risks early and proactively propose solutions.
- Balance short-term delivery requirements with long-term maintainability and platform architecture.
- Take accountability for the quality, reliability, and successful delivery of owned solutions.
Mentorship & Engineering Excellence

- Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior and mid-level engineers.
- Conduct meaningful code reviews that improve both code quality and engineering capability.
- Promote clean code, appropriate design patterns, testing, documentation, and engineering best practices.
- Help engineers reason through complex technical problems rather than simply providing answers.
- Raise engineering standards across the team through knowledge sharing and technical leadership.
Backend Engineering

- Design and implement scalable, secure, maintainable, and high-performance backend applications using Java and the Spring ecosystem.
- Design and maintain REST APIs and integrations with internal and third-party systems.
- Build and evolve microservices and distributed backend systems.
- Design appropriate database structures and optimize queries for performance and scalability.
- Troubleshoot complex production problems and drive root-cause analysis through permanent resolution.
- Identify performance bottlenecks and implement effective solutions.
- Write automated tests and maintain high standards for code quality.
Business & Stakeholder Collaboration

- Work directly with product, business, engineering, and technical leadership to understand business goals.
- Ask the right questions to uncover the actual problem behind a request.
- Recommend technical solutions rather than simply implementing requested specifications.
- Clearly communicate architecture decisions, technical constraints, risks, and tradeoffs.
- Build trust with stakeholders through ownership, follow-through, and sound engineering judgment.
AI-Enabled Engineering

- Effectively use modern AI-assisted development tools to accelerate implementation, analysis, debugging, testing, and refactoring.
- Critically review AI-generated code rather than accepting generated solutions without engineering validation.
- Identify opportunities where AI-enabled workflows can improve engineering productivity while maintaining code quality.
### Requirements

- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with substantial hands-on backend development experience.
- Advanced Java knowledge, including strong understanding of core Java, object-oriented programming, concurrency, collections, exception handling, and application performance.
- Strong hands-on experience with Spring / Spring Boot.
- Demonstrated experience designing and building microservices and distributed backend systems.
- Strong experience designing and maintaining REST APIs and third-party integrations.
- Strong relational database knowledge, including schema design, SQL, query optimization, and performance considerations. MySQL experience is preferred.
- Experience with ORM technologies such as JPA/Hibernate or equivalent.
- Experience with Git and modern software development practices.
- Experience with automated testing and code-quality practices.
- Strong hands-on experience AI Code assistants like Claude Code and Codex.
- Experience working in Agile development environments.
- Practical cloud experience, preferably AWS.

---
Data: alder (https://alderhq.app). Cite https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Aassuresoften%3A4724865006 and the date you read it. Observed facts come from the employer's own listing; location reach, level, family and skills are inferences.