Senior Backend Developer

Java + microservices — senior IC with mentorship responsibility

Company: Valeo Health

Location: Bengaluru — Work from Office (WFO)

Reporting to: Engineering Manager (Backend) / Head of Engineering

Valeo Health is a preventive healthcare and wellness platform operating across Saudi Arabia (KSA) and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), offering diagnostics, teleconsultation, AI-driven health insights, supplements, and care programs. We are building AI-first, compliant, and scalable

healthcare platforms that handle sensitive health data while delivering reliable, high-quality customer experiences across geographies.

We are looking for a Senior Backend Developer with deep experience in Java and microservices to build, scale, and operate the backend systems that power Valeo’s healthcare platform across KSA and UAE. You will own services end to end — design, build, ship, operate — while mentoring junior engineers and raising the technical bar of the team. This is a senior individual-contributor role focused on technical depth. You will spend most of your time writing code, designing systems, and reviewing your peers’ work. You will not manage people, but you will mentor 2–3 junior engineers, drive technical standards, and be the senior voice in architecture decisions for your area. It is the right role if you want to grow as an engineer rather than into management.

These three traits matter more than any specific framework on your CV. If they don’t describe you, this is not the right role.

• Ownership: You don’t wait for permission. When a service you own breaks, you fix it. When a junior engineer is stuck, you pair with them. When the design is unclear, you write it down.

• Deliver Results: You measure yourself in services shipped and reliability improved, not PRs merged. You can tell us what you built last quarter, what changed for users or the business because of it, and what you would do differently.

• Quick to Learn: You taught yourself something significant in the last three months and can describe it without preparation — a new framework, architecture pattern, or operational tool.

• Design, build, and operate Java-based microservices that handle sensitive healthcare data at scale.

• Own technical design for services in your area — write design docs, lead design reviews, make architecture tradeoffs.

• Maintain high standards for code quality, testing, observability, and operational excellence.

• Debug production issues across services; own root-cause analysis and remediation.

• Drive performance, reliability, and cost improvements in owned services.

• Mentor 2–3 junior backend engineers through pairing, code reviews, and design reviews.

• Run technical brown-bags and learning sessions for the backend team — share patterns, post-mortem learnings, new tools.

• Help juniors grow toward SDE II and Senior Engineer levels — identify stretch projects, give structured feedback.

• Be the first technical escalation point in your area for less senior engineers.

• Partner with frontend and mobile engineers on API design and contracts.

• Work with Product Managers on solution design and technical tradeoffs.

• Work with DevOps/SRE on infrastructure, deployment, and incident response.

• Participate in hiring — review resumes, conduct technical interviews, calibrate signal.

• Ensure code and design decisions meet HIPAA, UAE PDPL, and KSA PDPL requirements for healthcare data handling.

• Implement secure patterns for PII/PHI: encryption at rest and in transit, audit trails, access controls.

• Maintain documentation needed for security audits and reviews.

• 5–7 years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong focus on backend systems.

• 3+ years building production systems in Java (Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, or similar frameworks).

• Direct experience designing and operating microservices in production — not just consuming them.

• Demonstrated mentorship experience — you have meaningfully grown more junior engineers, formally or informally.

• Startup experience is a plus — comfort with ambiguity, speed of decision-making, and wearing multiple hats.

• Exposure to healthcare, fintech, or other regulated, high-trust domains is a plus.

• Strong expertise in Java (8 or later) and the Spring ecosystem (Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Data).

• Solid understanding of microservices architecture patterns — service discovery, API gateways, async messaging, circuit breakers, idempotency.

• Hands-on experience with relational and NoSQL databases (Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis).

• Experience with message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SQS) and event-driven design.

• Familiarity with AWS or GCP — compute, networking, IAM, and managed services.

• Strong understanding of REST API design; experience with gRPC or GraphQL is a plus.

• Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, or similar).

• Solid grounding in testing — unit, integration, and contract testing.

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and containerised deployment (Docker, Kubernetes).

• Understanding of data security, encryption, and PII/PHI handling.

• Strong systems thinking — you can reason about correctness, performance, and operability simultaneously.

• Crisp communication: you can write a clear technical spec, run a productive design review, and have a hard architectural conversation when needed.

• Calm under pressure during incidents.

• Curious about the domain — you care about why a healthcare feature matters, not just how to build it.

• You ship 2–3 significant backend services or major upgrades, owned end to end, with measurable reliability or performance impact.

• Junior engineers you mentor grow visibly — broader scope, harder problems, promotion readiness.

• Production incidents in your area decrease quarter over quarter.

• You become the first person teammates ask when they hit a hard backend or systems question.

• You contribute meaningfully to engineering hiring — both interview throughput and signal quality.

• Opportunity to build and scale compliant healthcare backend systems across international markets.

• High-impact senior IC role with deep technical ownership.

• Clear growth path along the IC ladder toward Staff Engineer, or laterally into Tech Lead and Engineering Manager roles.