Java Developer (m/w/d) - Backend Services

Relocation : This role offers relocation from the USA to Germany for exceptional engineering talent, with full visa sponsorship and legal support provided after a successful 3-month period.

Today over 1.78 million of small and medium-sized businesses in Europe alone need to be compliant with information security frameworks to be able to sell their products and services to enterprise customers.
Secfix automates security compliance for SMBs in Europe. Our platform integrates with a company’s tech stack (like AWS, Azure AD, Jira, etc.), automatically extracts the data needed for compliance, and creates a checklist to become and remain compliant.
Secfix is an early-stage fully remote startup in the best sense of the word. We’re a fun, close-knit team on a mission to become the European compliance automation leader.
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will help shape and build every product we deliver to real customers: You will also be part of growing a high-performance fully remote software startup.

We understand that startup life can be demanding, but we believe it doesn’t have to be stressful. You’re comfortable with startup life ambiguity, adapting to changing priorities based on customer and market feedback, and wearing multiple hats
You’re comfortable collaborating and communicating in a remote environment, especially in writing and with Loom. Remember, it requires more pro-active communication than working in the office
You know how to balance speed and quality and how to build leverage in your work through automation, abstractions and good software design and architecture
You don’t want to lead your own projects, but rather be led by someone else
You’ll deploy, monitor, troubleshoot, debug, support, maintain and evolve features and code under your responsibility
You’ll leverage AI-powered engineering tools (Cursor, Claude, etc.) You’ll support other team members on your area of expertise, mentor and develop junior engineers
You’ll follow company's culture and communication guidelines
5+ years of of industry experience as a full-time backend or product engineer, building user-facing products:

• Strong object oriented programming fundamentals in Java
• Spring Boot, Hibernate (or equivalent) experience
• Relational Database Design and SQL optimisation
• Ability to design and build backend systems that can scale both in supported features and concurrent usage
• Previous experience with Golang and/or Typescript is a bonus

• Experience working at fully remote companies
• Experience working on early stage startups
• 0.5-1 year of software engineering experience in high growth VC-funded startups.

Frontend: Typescript, Angular, Ngrx, Tailwind CSS
Java SpringBoot, Postrgesql, Hibernate, JPA
Remote Work: 100% remote work with a virtual office in Gather.
Relocation support : This role offers relocation from the USA to Germany for exceptional engineering talent, with full visa sponsorship and legal support provided after a successful 3-month period.
Competitive Salary: Industry-competitive local salaries.Development Budget: €1,000 annual personal development budget.
Workspace Budget: Remote workspace budget and access to co-working spaces.
Health Insurance: Company Events: Company-wide events to build relationships and have some fun!