Backend Developer Level 3

Job Title:

Backend Developer Level 3

Location:

100% Remote
Duration: 06+ Months Contract

In a digital economy, data is the 21st century gold rush. Imagine working for a big data company with 10 petabytes of data at your fingertips. A company where we are deriving insights from 35+ terabytes of new data every week. 84.51° is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Kroger Company. Our data is sourced from consumer transactions and behavior across 24 banners, 38 states and 58 million households.

We are the research, development, and innovation arm of the nations second largest retailer. We create advanced data driven solutions putting the customer at the center of all our decisions.

You will be part of a cross-functional team, applying your skill, experience, and creativity towards building complex and scalable solutions. You will work in a highly collaborative environment, solving exciting problems while leveraging best engineering practices. We work full-stack and the team owns features end-to-end. On our teams, were working daily with product, design, and data scientists to understand the problem and translate learnings into a pragmatic and effective solution.

We happily pull in a peer when we need a pair to get through a tough problem or just for a second pair of eyes. We are always balancing new feature development with efforts to continuously improve both our efficiency and our infrastructure.

A passion for bringing great products into our world through collaboration and ingenuity

Experience with sustainable engineering practices such as automated testing (TDD), continuous integration, continuous deployment, and monitoring / alerting.

Strong fundamentals, with overlap across our tech stack (Java, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, microservices, and relational databases)

A passion for learning from and collaborating with a diverse, talented team

Bachelors degree typically in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Mathematics, Business Analytics or another technically strong program

Minimum 4+ years working in modern full-stack web-application development

Experience building and shipping multiple large software products using agile methodologies

Excellent communication skills - you can effectively work with engineers but at the same time collaborate with product owners, data analysts and stakeholders

Experience in Media / Ad Industry

Experience working on distributed or remote-first teams

Experience with distributed system performance analysis and optimization

Experience in event-driven architectures

Experience with Dev Ops best practices and tools

Experience in Spark, Hadoop, Unravel, Hive, Google Cloud

Java

Docker

Spring Boot

RESTful APIs

Angular

MySQL

MongoDB

• Building robust and scalable software using a variety of tools & languages
• Designing and creating services and system architecture
• Writing code that is clean, testable and efficient, while improving our code quality through writing unit tests, automation, and conducting code reviews
• Help define architectural improvements to enable orders-of-magnitude growth in traffic and order volumes
• Following & bringing forth industry best practices from DRY, YAGNI principles to TDD and CI/CD practices, and following our own best practices & principles we have aligned on as an organization
• Working with the product, design and data science teams to understand end-user requirements, formulate use cases, and translating learnings into a pragmatic and effective technical solution
• Brainstorming and contributing ideas to our technology, algorithms, and products
• Creating amazing user experiences for both internal and external customers. Skills Some technology you might work with includes