About the role:

We’re looking for an experienced backend engineer to join our Platform team, someone passionate about building systems that make our entire engineering organization faster, safer, and more efficient. In this hands-on, impact-driven role, you’ll automate repetitive tasks, create reusable patterns, and improve observability and monitoring across our services.

You’ll take ownership of shared capabilities, developer experience, and infrastructure foundations that enable teams to ship software confidently and on a scale. If you love diving deep into complex systems, building tools that empower other engineers, and shaping the technical backbone of a growing organization, you’ll thrive here.

What you’ll do:

• Design and develop backend platform services in Kotlin (Spring Boot) and TypeScript/Bun that provide shared capabilities across the organization (billing,licensing, user permissions, authentication, etc.)

• Build reusable libraries, frameworks, and internal tools that improve developer productivity and enable teams to ship features faster

• Create and maintain APIs (REST and gRPC) for inter-service communication and external integrations

• Write clean, well-tested code with comprehensive unit and integration test coverage

• Collaborate with product teams to understand their needs and design platform solutions that solve common problems

• Contribute to architectural decisions and technical standards that improve code quality and maintainability

• across the codebase

• Build observability into services through structured logging, metrics, and monitoring

• Participate in code reviews, mentor team members, and champion best practices in software engineering

• Take ownership of complete solutions from design through deployment and production support

What we are looking for:

• Solid background in Kotlin and JVM to build scalable, cloud-native software

• Experience with Spring Boot and Gradle

• Strong experience with SQL queries, database performance optimization, and working with databases like PostgreSQL

• Experience with Kubernetes and AWS for cloud-native deployments

• Passionate about delivering complete solutions from server-side to client-side

• Experience with unit testing, integration testing, and maintaining high code quality

• Experience with designing and maintaining APIs for external integrations and public consumption

• Experience with building and optimizing for performance

• Creative and innovative in finding solutions to complex problems

• Self-starter who motivates others with enthusiasm and collaboration

• Passionate about clean code and best practices in computer science

• Keeps knowledge up to date by following what is happening in the industry

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent studies

Nice to have:

• Experience with Bun as a package manager and runtime

• Experience with TypeScript for backend services (we use Hono)

• Experience with gRPC for inter-service communication

• Familiarity with event-driven architectures (SQS/SNS)

• Experience with AI/ML integration in enterprise applications

• Knowledge of strategic portfolio management or project management domains

• Experience with multi-tenant SaaS applications

• Familiarity with Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar work management platforms

Why Join Tempo?

• Impact: Work on meaningful products that empower enterprise users and improve productivity.

• Innovation: Be part of a culture that values creativity and innovation, with opportunities to make a real impact.

• Collaboration: Join a supportive, collaborative UX team that values openness, communication, and a continuous learning environment.

• Growth: Opportunities for professional development, including conferences, courses, and mentorship.

What's In It For You

• Remote First work environment

• Unlimited vacation in most of our locations!!

• Great benefits including health, dental, vision and savings plan.

• Perks such as training reimbursement, WFH reimbursement, and more.

• Diverse and dynamic teams with challenging and exciting work.

• An opportunity to have a real impact on our business.

• A great range of social activities (both in person and virtual).

• Optional in person meet-ups and the ability to travel to our international offices

• Employee referral program

• And so much more!

Note: As our hiring teams are global, please submit your resume in English only

Org-wide Summary

At Tempo we’re on a mission to help teams build better, together. We are creators of top-selling Atlassian Marketplace apps, supporting more than 29,000 customers and working with hundreds of Solutions Partners globally. Our solutions help customers orchestrate creation and delivery, so their teams can focus and optimize around their highest priorities.

Our product suite has grown from our popular time-tracking solution, which launched in Iceland in 2009, to resource & capacity planning, project cost tracking, project & program management, and strategic roadmapping. In 2021, Tempo acquired Roadmunk, a roadmapping solution popular with product management teams, and ALM Works, creators of the Structure for Jira suite that delights project and program managers around the world.

We envision a world where everyone inside an organization works in harmony on the most impactful opportunities aligned with their mission. Come join us as we continuously innovate our award-winning products, create new solutions, and expand to new ecosystems. Are you ready to unlock the joy of building with us?

At Tempo Software, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to creating an inclusive culture. As such all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status