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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
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