Backend Engineer

Looking for a candidate who is currently using Java and Spring Boot as their primary production stack. We need someone who can set backend conventions for the team while owning payment and external API integrations end-to-end. Responsibilities: - Payment Integration: Managing the full PaymentIntent lifecycle, including webhooks, refunds, disputes, reconciliation, and async failure handling. - External API Boundaries: Ensuring webhook security, idempotency, retries, and production debugging. - API Contract Design: Establishing integration boundaries with the rest of the backend team. Requirements: - 5+ years of Java / Spring Boot experience in production. - Proficiency in setting conventions for Maven, Flyway, and Spring Security. - Deep experience with Stripe or equivalent payment gateways. - Strong background in webhook management and failure-handling logic. - Experience with PostgreSQL and AWS at the application level (managing secrets, endpoints, and config changes). - We need someone who can step in as the strongest Java integration engineer on the team from day one. Company Summary We're a product studio and tech lab that embeds with startups and growth-stage companies to turn early traction into scalable systems. Our model combines product, engineering, and AI as a unified solution led by a team of former Amazon and Google leaders with deep experience building at scale, fast. We work through a product-led model that aligns strategy, data, and delivery across three core capabilities: - Full Stack Analyst (FSA) - Analytics-as-a-service with insights, automation, and reporting full-time data team is needed. - Data Maturity Journey - From raw events to AI-readiness, we help teams unify their data, define key metrics, and build ML-ready infrastructure. - Z21 Pods - Embedded cross-functional pods that build and scale products fast, with tight iteration loops and full end-to-end ownership. We also developed the minimum scale velocity (MSV) framework, our proprietary system for helping startups scale without overbuilding, overhiring, or burning out. MSV defines the smallest viable momentum a business needs to grow, intentionally bridging the gap between PMF and real scale.

Required Skills ['Java', 'Spring', 'AWS', 'Maven', 'Microservices', 'PostgreSQL', 'Spring Security']

Additional Information

Source recruiter: Parmesh S Source recruiter designation: Founder Company tagline: AI-native innovation partner for scalable systems Employee count: 10 Company founded: 2023 Website: https://www.zeroto1.ai/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/zero-to-1-product-tech/?originalSubdomain=in Instahyre score: NA Strong match: NA Accept outstation: true Company tagline: AI-native innovation partner for scalable systems Logo: https://media.instahyre.com/images/profile/base/employer/52150/d5859011a0/zero\_to\_1\_product\_tech\_logo.webp