Backend Developer

Position Summary

As a Backend Engineer, you'll be responsible for crafting usable, adaptable, reliable, and secure software. You'll use the latest lean and agile thinking to solve tough problems and challenge yourself every day. You'll play an important role in driving our digital projects to success.

Primary Responsibilities

• Collaborate with others to invent, implement, and deploy new systems and improvements to existing systems
• Engineer new systems and changes to existing systems to support new functionality
• Build functionality to ship new experiences and technologies
• Maintain production systems and perform root cause analysis of issues to assist in determining the source of problems
• Active participation in the Scrum process
• Ensure good development testing coverage of unit and integration testing
• Participate in peer design and code reviews
• Participate in architecture design planning
• Proactively collaborate with teammates and communicate with the remote team

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent work or training experience
• Minimum of 5 years working on micro-services / web-based systems (REST)
• Experience working in a product-oriented, team-based environment that uses modern digital delivery approaches such as user experience design, lean, agile, DevOps, and cloud computing
• Proficiency with Java 17 or above, preferably JDK25
• Proficiency with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud frameworks
• Experience with RDS (MySQL)
• Understanding of Docker, Kubernetes
• Ability to write Unit tests and follow TDD principles
• Strong understanding of design patterns, OOP, development methodologies

Nice to have

• Experience with NodeJS, express
• Experience with data caching, e.g. Redis
• Experience with Elasticsearch or OpenSearch
• Knowledge of AWS services: S3, Secrets, SES, EC2
• Understanding of messaging systems principles (Kafka, Rabbit, etc.)
• Experience with Kafka, MQTT
• Experience with tools like Swagger

Skills and Competencies

• Expertise in engineering micro-services / web-based systems
• Knowledge of engineering fundamentals and architecture
• Able to think holistically around engineering issues
• A thoughtful, adaptive, and positive mindset
• Empathetic, humble, and collaborative mindset
• Proactively communicate clear status updates, technical assumptions, and early risk indicators
• Effective written and verbal communication skills in English