What You’ll Do
● Collaborate with product, engineering, and data science teams to design, develop, and deploy highly scalable solutions.
● Write and maintain comprehensive unit and integration tests for the software you produce.
● Work through all phases of the software development life cycle, including analysis, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance
● Work closely with the QA team to review test plans for gaps and completeness
● Conduct performance benchmarks and tune the system for high throughput
● Review team code commits and sign-off on commit quality and adherence to standards
● Identify team member growth opportunities and mentor less experienced engineers
● Participate or lead in architecture reviews to vet project design across the organization
● Investigate, analyze and address reported defects in a timely manner
● Deliver technical documentation for use by customers and partners
What We’re Looking For
● Degree in Computer Science or equivalent combination of education and experience
● 7+ years programming experience in a enterprise, high-scale framework, with most recent significant experience in Java or Groovy
● Advanced understanding of the core server-side development concepts
● Proficient in writing and performance tuning complex SQL
● Advanced relational DB experience with MySQL, Postgres or equivalent
● Experience building and integrating with web services REST APIs
● Experience with high performance datastores such as Redis (or similar experience working with NoSQL stores such as DynamoDB, ScyllaDB, Cassandra)
● Experience working with queues and stream processing such as Kafka, (or similar experience working with SQS, SNS or Kinesis)
● Experience working with AWS, GCP or equivalent cloud providers
● Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
● Demonstrated ability to compose clear and concise technical documentation
What will set you apart
● Experience building high scale web application platforms or SaaS platforms
● Experience using modern frameworks such as Micronaut, Vert.x or similar
● Experience with asynchronous programming patterns
● Advanced experience working with stream processing and event driven architectures
● Experience working with big data technology stacks such as Iceberg, Trino, Databricks, Clickhouse.
● Experience delivering applications that work at large scale, processing tens of thousands of requests per second