Staff Software Engineer (Back-End)

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Role: Staff Software Engineer (Back-End)

Location: USA/Canada-Remote

Roles And Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design and development of new cloud-based software architectures
• Own and deliver complete features, including design, architecture, implementation, testability and deployment
• Provide feedback pertaining to technical designs, proposals and code
• Analyze existing applications / databases and identify areas for improvement
• Design and contribute to APIs that can support user experiences on web and mobile applications
• Participate across the entire software development lifecycle, taking features from concept to production release
• Collaboratively create solutions with other teams
• Troubleshoot software issues and debug a large codebase
• Develop and execute unit and integration tests
• Contribute to technical documentation to increase maintainability of software assets

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering industry experience building backend software, with exposure to microservices, event-driven architectures, and batch processing.
• 4+ years' experience / strong proficiency in Java and the Spring Boot framework
• Strong fundamentals working with databases and data modeling, both relational (e.g. PostgreSQL) & NoSQL (e.g. DynamoDB)
• Experience with building applications in the cloud with AWS and experience with serverless infrastructure such as AWS Lambda
• Experience with containerization and orchestration infrastructure (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, ECS)
• Experience with distributed messaging systems such as Apache Kafka
• Experience collaborating with Engineering and Product teams to turn complex business requirements into clean and extensible APIs
• Nice to have: experience with Python as well as test frameworks such as pytest or unittest
• Nice to have: experience with Node.js and Typescript
• Possess strong technical, analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills with the ability to visualize and document processes
• Proficient at using appropriate security, documentation, and/or monitoring best practices
• Familiar with Agile/Scrum methodologies