Primary Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teammates to design, implement, test, and deploy new systems and enhancements to existing platforms.
• Engineer backend services and API changes that support new functionality and product requirements.
• Develop features for new experiences and technologies, ensuring maintainability and performance.
• Own production system support activities, including troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and issue resolution.
• Actively participate in Scrum ceremonies and contribute to continuous improvement of delivery processes.
• Ensure strong test coverage using unit and integration testing; follow TDD where applicable.
• Participate in peer reviews for design and code to improve quality and knowledge sharing.
• Participate in architecture planning and technical design discussions.
• Proactively collaborate with teammates and communicate clearly with remote stakeholders.
• Willing to start by July in a contract engagement.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent work experience and/or training.
• Minimum 5 years of experience building microservices / REST-based web systems.
• Experience working in a product-oriented, team-based environment using modern delivery practices (e.g., UX-focused collaboration, lean/agile, DevOps, cloud).
• Proficiency in Java 17 or above (preferably JDK 25).
• Proficiency with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud.
• Experience with RDS (MySQL).
• Strong understanding of Docker and Kubernetes.
• Ability to write unit tests and apply TDD principles.
• Strong command of design patterns, OOP, and sound software engineering methodologies.