Backend Software Engineer, Canvas Backend

Engineering, Yerevan, AM

About the Team

We’re looking for Backend Engineers to join the Canvas Backend team.
Our team provides the platform that enables Miro Product teams to implement and evolve new forms of canvas content - unlocking new use cases for our customers. We also build the foundation for both real-time and asynchronous collaboration, focusing on seamless communication between the Board Server and Collaboration apps.
By delivering a powerful, stable, and high-performance platform, the Canvas Backend team lays the tracks for future innovation, empowering Miro teams to move faster and build better products.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Backend Engineer who will help us achieve ambitious goals. We expect you to have a strong software engineering experience, readiness to drive change and experiment in search of the best solution, an understanding of how to work with big loads, and be able to scale it. Be responsible for the important parts of the code and be willing to take on difficult challenges, collaborate with teams across Miro to provide well-defined and extendable interfaces on Canvas model data.

What you’ll do

  • Create high quality technical design and high quality, self-documented code
  • Design and implement scalable and high-performing solutions with concurrency and fault-tolerance in mind
  • Optimize application performance and scalability, identifying areas for improvement and implementing necessary enhancements
  • Design and implement flexible but stable and future-proof data access patterns and contracts (APIs, events)
  • Take long-term ownership for feature/subsystem
  • Write exception-safe mission-critical code that has no right to crash
  • Collaborate with teams across Miro to improve our product, architecture, and engineering practices

What you’ll need

  • 4+ years of backend development experience. We use Java 17, Kotlin and Spring (+Spring Boot). Java ecosystem is preferable, but other languages aren't blockers ( C#, C++)
  • 4+ years of experience building robust, high-scale, distributed systems in production environments
  • Proficient in REST, WebSockets for real-time communication
  • Familiarity with cloud architecture, with preference given to experience with AWS
  • Understanding of high-load architecture and SaaS infrastructure
  • Understanding of Apache Kafka or equivalent messaging systems
  • Proficient in multithreading concepts in Java, including thread management, thread pools, and their impact on system resources and performance

What's in it for you

  • Competitive equity package
  • Health insurance for you and your family
  • Help with relocation
  • Breakfast, lunch, snacks, and drinks provided in the office
  • Wellbeing benefit and WFH equipment allowance
  • Annual learning and development allowance to grow your skills and career
  • Opportunity to work for a globally diverse team
  • Travel allowance for your commute

About Miro

Miro is a visual workspace for innovation that enables distributed teams of any size to build the next big thing. The platform's infinite canvas enables teams to lead engaging workshops and meetings, design products, brainstorm ideas, and more. Miro, co-headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam, serves more than 90M users worldwide, including 99% of the Fortune 100. Miro was founded in 2011 and currently has more than 1,600 employees in 12 hubs around the world.

We are a team of dreamers. We look for individuals who dream big, work hard, and above all stay humble. Collaboration is at the heart of what we do and through our work together we hope to create a supportive, welcoming, and innovative environment. We strive to play as a team to win the world and create a better version of ourselves every day. If this sounds like something that excites you, we want to hear from you!

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  • 02. Hiring Manager

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