Senior Engineer

Job Description Role:
Senior Engineer The Role

Yield Solutions Group (YSG) is seeking a key contributor to fill a position on our development team as a Senior Engineer. We want someone with strong beliefs and experience tempered by an open mind and collaborative personality to complement our existing team in the continued growth and improvement of our development and delivery practices. We are currently enhancing an enterprise application that supports our auto refinancing business, built on java microservices architecture with a React front-end, and looking forward to adding new lines of businesses.

The successful candidate will be an engaged and supportive teammate, demonstrate exceptional technical acumen, appreciate XP practices, doggedly track down root problems, and implement robust solutions that span the entire stack of the application. You should feel comfortable mentoring other developers, navigating the complexities of our microservices architecture, and actively participating in multi-disciplinary discussions and decisions about business objectives and outcomes, development processes to achieve them.

Finally, we will expect you to advocate for and promote technical and process improvements as our implementation patterns continue to grow and evolve.

• Contribute to all phases of development – Story Refinement, Design, Planning, Dev & QA, Maint.
• Write well designed, testable, efficient code.
• Produce reusable / maintainable / secure / performant solutions.
• Mentor mid and junior level developers
• Application troubleshooting, problem identification and resolution.

• 7+ years software development / software engineering experience
• Java 11+ or another OOP language
• Spring Boot 2 or another web framework
• Experience with relational database design (RDD)
• Experience working with micro-services.
• AWS or another cloud provider (GCP, Azure, etc.)
• Experience working with Linux / Unix

• Distributed systems experience
• Serverless functions
• Messaging platforms such as Kafka or SQS / SNS
• Designing with document-based data stores, SQL / No
  
  SQL decisions
• Hands-on experience decomposing a monolith architecture into micro-services.
• Integrations with legacy 3rd party APIs using XML / SOAP
• Reactive programming
• Functional languages
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Cloud Formation, etc.) and Git Ops