Sr. Backend engineer

Job Description:

We are seeking a strong individual contributor backend engineer with hands-on experience architecting and building large scale distributed web applications. Supporting Stores & Social team. You should be able to own the end-end architecture from front end to back end systems and guide the team on core technical design.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Collaborate closely with peers, Architects, Product Managers, Business Analysts, Quality Engineers, and Operations teams to develop innovative solutions that meet functional and non-functional standards and expectations.
• Be involved in development, testing, release, triage, bug fix, documentation and work in an Agile environment.
• Use of tools like JIRA, Git, CI/CD and other internal tools on a regular basis to organize work and deliver features.
• Evaluate and define storage needs and make technology recommendations, define domain services and interface definitions and testing architecture.
• Design and build high-performing, reliable solutions for high-throughput, distributed systems using a variety of third-party and internal libraries and frameworks
• Participate in technical design and code reviews and provide feedback to other engineers on the team.
• Estimate engineering efforts, roadmap planning and be responsible for operational processes, such as automation and controls, to help with efficiency and quality of both manual and technical operations.

Must Haves:

• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science or related field plus 12+ years of experience in Java in building large-scale web based distributed systems.
• Thorough understanding in computer science fundamentals, data structures and algorithms and extensive experience in building highly available, scalable and robust applications.
• Excellent object oriented design and coding skills in Java or other OO languages, hands-on experience using unit/integration test frameworks like Karate to build fully automated software applications
• Solid understanding of relational and NoSQL databases, data storage/access patterns, caching techniques, messaging systems and asynchronous workflows
• Experience with bug triaging and debugging techniques, logging and monitoring systems, application and query performance tuning
• Good understanding of web services and SOA related standards like REST/OAuth/JSON
• Familiarity with front end technologies and patterns is desirable

Tech Stack:

• Java
• Springboot
• Microservices
• SOA - Web Services/rest
• NoSQL (Prefers MongoDB)
• Oauth or IAM or Access Management)