Senior Backend Engineer

Role & responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high availability software systems.
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.
• Collaborate with the rest of the engineering team as an expert on reliability, performance, and efficiency to refine and develop new product features.
• Engage in full cycle development of microservices and drive projects to completion in a timely manner

Major Required Skills

• Design, code and troubleshoot distributed Java applications built with Spring Framework.
• Practical experience working with one or more Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) including design, implementation, and troubleshooting.
• Strong experience working with SQL. Usually associated with meeting the above requirement.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Apache Kafka or similar message-based technologies (ZeroMQ, MSMQ, etc.) that are foundational for building applications using an event-driven distributed system architecture
• ElasticSearch with a solid understanding of its appropriate uses cases in a distributed system architecture
• A good understanding of micro-services style architecture and implementation approaches
• Experience building, running and troubleshooting containers (Docker, podman, etc.)
• Designed, implemented, deployed and maintained RESTful APIs.
• Experience with git-based version control systems such as GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab, etc.

Desirable Technical Skills

• Ruby
• Python
• JavaScript -- particularly used in the context of node.js
• Experience implementing build pipelines. Preferably full CI/CD.
• Kibana's integration with ElasticSearch
• Kubernetes
• Have used Terraform to define, provision and maintain infrastructure (Infrastructure-As-Code)
• Incorporated OpenAPI specification when building RESTful APIs
• Apache Ni-Fi