Java Backend Engineer-AZ/Remote at Photon Interactive UK Limited · Remote (United States)
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AWS
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CI/CD
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GitHub Actions
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Java
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Hands-on JVM profiling and heap analysis experience
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Load testing experience
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Experience diagnosing memory leaks and latency issues in production
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Experience triaging OOMs and P99 spikes
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Experience identifying and remediating security vulnerabilities (dependency/CVE scanning, patching)
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Experience with GitHub pull requests, branch protection rules, and code review workflows
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Why they ask: Design judgement.
How to answer: Draw it, name the trade-offs, say what you learned.
Why they ask: Debugging method.
How to answer: Measure first, then caching, queries, indexes, async work.
Why they ask: Quality habits.
How to answer: Unit, integration, and what you would not test.
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Why they ask: Java is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
Why they ask: Kubernetes is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
Why they ask: Opener to see how you frame your story.
How to answer: Two minutes: current role, one achievement that matches this job, why this company now.
Why they ask: Checks ownership and depth.
How to answer: Use situation, action, result. Quantify the result.
Why they ask: Tests accountability and learning.
How to answer: Pick a real failure, own your part, show the fix and what changed afterwards.
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