Senior Backend Engineer

JOB PURPOSE – WHAT WILL YOU DO: 

The Senior Backend Engineer will work with a team of talented engineers to develop scalable and high-performance core platform services in a predominantly Spring framework. The role focuses on hands-on programming and architecture contributions while interfacing with engineering and design teams, and quality for our products with an emphasis on iteratively learning actions.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES – WHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR: 

• Assists in defining software architectures – Collaborates with leads to explore existing systems, determines areas of complexity, potential risks to successful implementation, learns the applications capabilities 

• Builds software applications primarily for the JVM platform – Follows coding standards, has a great programming discipline. 

• Maintain and enhance distributed applications. 

• Maintain and enhance backend and middleware services (micro-services style) 

• Build a healthy team environment via professional collaboration. 

• Enjoy working in a fast paced and challenging environment. Just like a visionary startup. 

• Ownership and responsibility of work. 

• Bring professional attitude at work and belief in team effort

SKILLS/COMPETENCIES REQUIRED – WHAT YOU WILL NEED:

• Passionate, energetic, driven to achieve progress and growth by thinking above and beyond 

• Always hustling and ready to take on big bold bets 

• Customer obsessed, earning their trust and solving their problems 

• Results driven, effectively overcoming obstacles and challenging the status quo 

• Can act as one team. Able to work with and contribute to a team environment towards a shared vision and mission 

• Strong communication and soft skills, able to motivate, mentor and help fellow developers as well as communicate complex ideas effectively 

• Detail-oriented and exceptional organizational skills 

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to interact at all levels of the organization 

• Exercises independence and self-motivation while still being able to work with others collaboratively 

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, high-energy environment 

• Self-motivated with positive energy

JOB PREREQUISITES (EDUCATION, PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE ETC)

• 6+ years of professional experience

• Bachelor's in Computer Science / Engineering or related field 

• Strong proficiency in Java, Spring framework technologies and Spring cloud services

• Deep functional knowledge or hands-on experience in Microservices development is a must.

• Understanding fundamental design principles behind scalable applications.

• Ability to multitask, recommend and enforce industry best practices and patterns.

• Strong understanding the nature of transactional and asynchronous programming across microservices topology.

• Strong understanding of security standards, such as Oauth2 

• Strong experience in SQL/noSQL programming, such as MySQL, Elasticsearch

• Strong experience in Docker containerization

• Strong experience in Amazon web services

• Strong understanding of code versioning tools / Source Code Management (Git, GitHub, Bitbucket)

• Ability to operate effectively both independently as well and within a team using Agile methodology.

• Ability to use, track, and respond to all work assignments using JIRA based ticketing system