Toptal: Backend Java Developer

Our client is a global media and tech company that connects people to their passions. We reach nearly 900M people around the world, bringing them closer to what they love—from finance and sports to mail, shopping, gaming and news—with the trusted products, content, and tech that fuel their day.

We continue to be one of the largest and most recognizable email services in the world. Delivering over 4.5B emails daily, and with consistently top-rated mobile apps. Our Mail is a critical pillar in the company’s long-term growth strategy.

About the Role:

We are looking for experienced Back-end Java Developer to join our team and work with one of the leading Mail platform in the world.

We are working on a partner migration of our core mail services. Therefore we need to be cloud agnostic, lift and shift existing functionality to the cloud. This involves moving all our applications, code, platforms, and infrastructure to the cloud, optimizing it and modernizing it for future growth.

About You:

You are passionate about growing your skills and value high quality application development on modern tech stack and cloud. You will enjoy building the next generation of communication products, web and mobile platforms. You are interested in how best to drive tasks to completion, collaborate to achieve your goals, think through scenarios and edge cases, learn from your leadership, and understand the broader impact of your work.

If you are interested in joining a world-class team of passionate people and industry veterans who care about code quality, architecture, design and user experience as much as having fun together, then we’d like to talk to you.

Tasks and Deliverables:

• Develop and maintain Java-based applications on cloud-based platforms.
• Migration of Java applications and core mail services
• Identify and implement optimizations, fine-tune / re-architect infrastructure
• Integration with existing DevOps and CICD pipelines/environments
• Improve future maintainability of the platform and surrounding tools
• Design and implement solutions that meet business requirements, ensuring scalability, security, and reliability.
• Work with cross-functional teams to develop and deploy complex applications on AWS/GCP.
• Lead and mentor other engineers throughout design and development

• Strong back-end experience in software development using Java Object-oriented programming skills
• Strong knowledge of RESTful APIs and microservices architecture
• Experience with AWS or GCP
• Understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Experience with Distributed Systems and Large Scale Systems
• Strong computer science fundamentals and knowledge of Design Patterns
• Analytical and problem solving skills
• SQL and RDS Database

Nice to Have Experience:

• Experience with DevOps tools and practices
• Leadership experience

Engagement Highlights:

- Commitment: We prefer full-time (40 hr/week) but open to considering part-time who can ramp up to full-time in 3-4 weeks.

- Overlap: 6+ hours with PST

- Client will be sending their own laptop (MacBook) to the talent to use