Product Development Engineer III - Backend

Job Requirements About Phenom Phenom is a global HR technology company with a mission to help a billion people find the right job. Our AI-powered talent experience platform is used by 600+ enterprises worldwide — including Fortune 500 companies — to hire faster, develop talent, and create phenomenal employee experiences. We are innovators in the HR Tech space, building cutting-edge products across AI, automation, personalization, and analytics to transform the future of work. At Phenom, you will work with world-class engineers solving complex problems at scale, powering millions of talent interactions every day. About The Role We are looking for a highly skilled Backend Engineer (PDE III) with deep expertise in Java , microservices, and scalable distributed systems. As part of our high-performance engineering team, you will design, build, and optimize backend services that power mission-critical products used by global enterprises. Key Responsibilities Architect, develop, and scale microservices-based applications using Java & Spring ecosystem Design and optimize high-performance, low-latency backend systems Own end-to-end delivery — architecture, coding, testing, deployment & monitoring Build secure and resilient systems with fault-tolerance and observability Collaborate with product, data, and platform teams to translate business needs into engineering solutions Mentor junior engineers & influence engineering best practices Troubleshoot performance, scalability, and production issues Work Experience Required Skills Strong hands-on expertise in: Core Java, Java 11+ Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Hibernate/JPA REST API frameworks & microservices Strong understanding of: DSA, system design, distributed systems Concurrency, multithreading & memory management Event-driven architecture: Kafka / RabbitMQ Databases: PostgreSQL / MySQL / MongoDB / Redis DevOps stack: Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines Cloud: AWS / GCP / Azure Hands-on experience with AI-powered development tools and coding agents for code generation, debugging, refactoring, and developer productivity Good to Have Experience in SaaS & multi-tenant cloud environments ElasticSearch / Redis caching Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack TDD: JUnit, Mockito Experience in high-scale event streaming systems