Backend Software Developer

Overview

Title:
Software Engineer - Backend

Summary: Develop microservices for our global platform as a member of an agile scrum team reporting to a Team Lead.

• Work under minimal supervision to analyze, design, develop, test, and debug enhancements to Java-based microservices hosted on Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS).
• Collaborate with Business Analysts and Product Managers to turn business requirements into working and sustainable software.
• Participate in the design of product architecture within the team’s scope of responsibility.
• Provide thoughtful insight and suggestions in code reviews.
• Write unit and automation tests, and conduct manual tests, to ensure a high-quality end product.
• Contribute to written design and API documentation, and participate in the customer documentation process.
• Actively participate in the agile software development process by adhering to the scrum methodology, including attending all daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives.
• Participate in cross-team group activities to complete assignments.

• 6+ years developing web applications or services in Java.
• 2+ years developing cloud-based microservices hosted in Kubernetes.
• 1+ years developing applications or services with Spring or Spring Boot.
• 2+ years developing applications or services using SQL and JPA (or equivalent ORM).
• 1+ years developing applications or services using Kafka Streams—Spring Cloud Stream a plus.
• 2+ years developing unit, integration and functional tests with Cucumber, JUnit, or equivalent automated test framework.
• 3+ years writing design documents for new applications, services and features.
• 2+ years working in a large corporate setting on enterprise web products.
• 1+ years working in an agile/scrum environment.