Java Backend Architect

The Atradius Group provides trade credit insurance, surety, and collections services worldwide, and has a presence through 160 offices in 52 countries. The products offered by Atradius protect companies around the world against the default risks associated with selling goods and services on credit.

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Department Description

Atradius IT Services (ITS) is part of the Atradius Group and is responsible for all worldwide ICT services for Atradius. ITS is a global operation with staff in 12 countries driving the digital transformation and a wide range of services, projects, vendors, and outsourcing.

Within Atradius ITS, the Shared Components area is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining reusable components that serve as the foundation for various Atradius applications and services. Its primary objective is to ensure integration, consistency, and efficiency of common elements, while promoting standardization and enabling scalability across the organization. Furthermore, Shared Components fosters collaboration between teams, provides technical support, and guarantees that all components meet the required standards for quality, security, and alignment with business objectives.

The Shared Components team at Atradius plays a key role in providing reusable technical capabilities that support the development of consistent, secure, and scalable business applications across the organization. The team focuses on designing, building, and maintaining common components, integration assets, and backend services that enable delivery teams to accelerate implementation while following enterprise standards. By promoting reuse, technical alignment, and collaboration across IT areas, Shared Components helps improve efficiency, reduce duplication, and ensure that solutions are robust, maintainable, and aligned with Atradius business objectives.

If you are passionate about designing robust Java backend architectures, working with modern backend frameworks, building secure API ecosystems, and defining scalable integration solutions, we invite you to explore the opportunity to join us as our Java Backend Architect.

Job Description

As Java Backend Architect at Atradius, you will define and guide the architecture of Java-based backend services, APIs, microservices, and reusable integration components. Working closely with enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, DevOps, engineering teams, and product stakeholders, you will translate business and platform needs into secure, scalable, maintainable technical solutions. In this role, you will set backend architecture principles, promote modern Java frameworks and engineering practices, review solution designs, and provide technical leadership to teams delivering mission‑critical backend services.

Responsibilities

In this position, your key responsibilities will be:

Java Backend Architecture & Modern Frameworks

• Define target architectures for Java backend services, microservices, APIs, and reusable integration components, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and platform standards.
• Design scalable, resilient, and maintainable backend solutions using modern Java frameworks and patterns, including Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Quarkus, Micronaut, Jakarta EE, RESTful services, asynchronous messaging, and event‑driven integration where appropriate.
• Establish backend architecture principles covering modularity, clean architecture, domain‑driven design, dependency management, performance, scalability, and long‑term maintainability.
• Define and promote API design standards, including contract‑first design, OpenAPI documentation, versioning, error handling, pagination, idempotency, lifecycle management, and backward compatibility.
• Review technical designs and implementation approaches to ensure consistency, code quality, performance, security, observability, and operational readiness across backend and API solutions.
• Guide teams in selecting the right backend framework and architecture approach based on workload, deployment model, maintainability, runtime performance, and enterprise standards.

Backend Security, APIs & Operational Excellence

• Embed security‑by‑design principles into Java backend and API solutions, including authentication, authorization, secure communication, secrets management, input validation, secure coding, and dependency vulnerability management.
• Define and review API security patterns such as OAuth2, OpenID Connect, JWT, mTLS, API gateways, rate limiting, threat protection, access control models, and integration with enterprise identi