Senior Backend Engineer (Java) - USA

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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.

Secfix Overview

Today over 1.78 million of small and medium-sized businesses in Europe alone need to be compliant with information security frameworks to sell their products and services to enterprise customers. Secfix automates security compliance for SMBs in Europe. We help SMBs automate ISO 27001, GDPR, TISAX, and SOC 2 in weeks instead of months. Our platform integrates with a company’s tech stack (AWS, Azure AD, Jira, etc.), automatically extracts the data needed for compliance, and creates a checklist to become and remain compliant.

Why Join Secfix

Secfix is an early-stage fully remote startup on a mission to become the European compliance automation leader. We grew from 0 revenue to >1 M$ ARR within two years and have already covered most of our costs with revenue. Now we are looking to grow further and faster. Our trajectory is backed by top investors, including Octopus Ventures, Neosfer (Commerzbank), founders of Signavio and many more angels.

Role Purpose

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will help shape and build every product we deliver to real customers: CTOs, COOs and engineering teams of small and medium businesses. You will also be part of growing a high-performance fully remote software startup.

Who We’re Looking For

We’re building an environment where ambitious, independent engineers can thrive. We want people who take pride in building actual products, who are curious about how the features we ship are used daily, and who bring a design-first mindset (plan before coding) to ensure scalable, maintainable systems. We own products and outcomes, not Jira tickets.

Responsibilities

You’ll be the go-to person for all things backend in your product area
You’ll work closely with the CTO and the Tech Lead to set technical direction
You’ll work closely with our product and design teams and with our customers to identify, plan, design, build and ship features on schedule
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.) to accelerate development, debugging, and testing
You’ll own and maintain product and technical documentation
You’ll support other team members on your area of expertise, mentor and develop junior engineers
You’ll follow company culture and communication guidelines
You’ll live by our values

Requirements

5+ years of full-time backend or product engineering experience, building user-facing products
Strong object-oriented programming fundamentals in Java
Spring Boot, Hibernate (or equivalent) experience
Relational database design and SQL optimisation skills
Testing, monitoring and troubleshooting experience
Ability to design and build backend systems that can scale in supported features and concurrent usage
Previous experience with Golang and/or TypeScript is a bonus
Experience owning features end-to-end, from idea to execution to delivery in production
Experience communicating software design ideas and adapting to feedback before jumping into coding
Extensive experience with AI-powered engineering tools (Cursor, Claude), with an understanding of their strengths, weaknesses and how to validate outputs

Preferred (Bonus)

Experience working at fully remote companies
Experience working on early-stage startups
Built functional AI features (especially if deployed to production) or integrated AI with backend systems
0.5–1 year of software engineering experience in high-growth VC-funded startups

What We Offer

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; we pay local rates that are at or above the market
Equity: Generous equity package – we’re all owners of Secfix and beneficiaries of our collective success
Mentorship: We are backed by top VCs and accelerators and have direct access to world-class mentors
Workspace Budget: Remote workspace budget and access to co‑working spaces
Holidays: 26 days holiday + local public holidays
Annual Retreat: Annual retreat to build connections and inspire ideas (this year we’re heading to Milan!)
Company Events: Company-wide events to build relationships and have some fun