**Introduction** Team is looking for a Backend Software Developer to join our team in Toronto. At Instana, we process and analyze millions of spans, traces, metrics and events per second in order to provide actionable APM intelligence to our rapidly expanding customer base. Your role will cover the whole software engineering life cycle from technical design to implementation, quality assurance, delivery to production as well as maintenance and customer support. If you're interested, it is also possible to support the designer of the team on requirements engineering tasks as well as in customer interviews. Together with your peers, you'll work on a Java based streaming backend, which leverages Dropwizard, Kafka , ElasticSearch and Cassandra mainly. You will drive cross team efforts to deliver larger solutions, architect, collaborate with all stakeholders to deliver cutting edge solutions as required. **Your role and responsibilities** * Collaborate with Product Management and implement feature roadmaps. * Leverage modern tools and techniques to develop clean, efficient and reusable code. * Contribute to performance optimization. * Review code and promote test automation. * Handle issues reported by our customers. * Provide production support to our SRE’s, field teams, and customers for the features we develop. * Mentor junior developers as we grow the team. **Required technical and professional expertise** * 8+ years programming experience in Java, J2EE, Spring MVC, and JavaScript. * Experience in developing microservices for distributed systems. * Experience in container technologies like docker, Kubernetes. * Experience working with datastores such as: Cassandra, ElasticSearch, or Kafka * Experience in automation testing frameworks like Junit, Mockito, Spring Test, Cypress. * Ability to learn new technologies quickly * Good code writing discipline and an eye for code efficiency * Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving techniques * Fluent in written and spoken English **Preferred technical and professional experience** · Experience working in cloud service providers like IBM Cloud, AWS, Google, Azure. · Experience with functional reactive programming paradigm like Project Reactor