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About the Team
We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Messaging team The Messaging team owns Miro’s notification platform, ensuring users receive relevant, timely, and trustworthy notifications that help them stay informed and improve their Miro experience. This includes email notifications in-app notifications, and the underlying systems that power them. Our mission sits at the intersection of product experience and platform reliability. We enable Miro teams to communicate with users at the right moment, across channels, at scale - while avoiding noise, duplication, and overload. By building robust, scalable, and observable messaging system, we help Miro teams drive retention, engagement and clarity for millions of users.
About the Role
We’re looking for a Backend Engineer who will help us evolve and scale Miro’s messaging and notification capabilities. You’ll work on high-throughput, event-driven systems that operate under strict reliability, latency, and correctness requirements. The role requires strong software engineering fundamentals, experience with distributed systems, and a product mindset - understanding that every notification affects user trust. You’ll take ownership of critical services, collaborate closely with Product and Platform teams, and help define stable, extensible interfaces that enable Miro teams to deliver meaningful user notifications safely and efficiently.
What you’ll do
- Design and implement scalable, fault-tolerant backend services for email and in-app notifications
- Build and evolve event-driven, asynchronous pipelines that process high volumes of product and user events
- Own critical services end-to-end including production health monitoring
- Collaborate closely with Product Managers to understand requirements
- Define APIs for internal teams to consume messaging services
- Improve system observability through metrics/logging/tracing
- Participate in code reviews to maintain quality standards
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives around reliability & scalability
What you’ll need
- Strong proficiency in Java 17 or Kotlin programming languages
- Experience with Spring / Spring Boot frameworks
- Deep understanding of event-driven architectures & asynchronous processing
- Proven track record building message-based distributed systems in production
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure such as AWS
- Experience designing scalable SaaS architecture handling high load & throughput
- Knowledge of production observability practices & autonomous debugging techniques
- Ability to rapidly prototype features using AI-assisted tools like Claude Code or Cursor is a plus
- Product mindset with focus on user trust impact of notifications
- Excellent collaboration skills working across Product & Platform teams
- Ownership mentality for features & subsystems including production evolution
- Miro Mindset attributes: Curiosity; Drive; Resilience; Empathy; Cognitive Agility; Accountability
AI-First Proficiency
We embrace AI-assisted software development workflows:
- Use AI tools such as Claude Code or Cursor for rapid prototyping & debugging
- Build multi-agent flows integrating AI into messaging pipelines to enhance reliability & user experience
- Continuously improve AI integration based on feedback loops from production telemetry
What's in it for you?
- Competitive salary package aligned with senior engineering roles in Amsterdam market
- Flexible working hours & WFH equipment allowance (remote policy not explicitly stated)
- Travel allowance for your commute
- Opportunity to work for a globally diverse team
- Inspiring workplace in the heart of Amsterdam
Miro is a visual workspace for innovation that enables distributed teams of any size to dream, design, and build the future together. The platform's infinite canvas enables teams to lead engaging workshops and meetings, design products, brainstorm ideas, and more. Their mission is to empower teams to create the next big thing.
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