Team Lead​/Senior Backend Engineer

Job Title

Develop production-grade software that is modular, reusable, scalable, and highly functioning

Lead one of our core engineering squads

Build RESTful APIs

Build performant background jobs and queues

Collaborate with other technology team members on solution design and code review

Select new technologies/languages/tools/frameworks

Perform debugging, tech debt resolution, and continuous code quality improvement

Use test driven development (TDD) and maintain test coverage

Introduce engineering process improvements and tools (depending on seniority level)

Mentoring/pair programming/leadership (depending on seniority level)

Required:

6 years MIN experience as a software engineer

Experience as a team lead or tech lead

Strong Java experience across multiple projects

Tech stack:
Spring or Spring Boot + JPA/Hibernate

Have built several Web applications, especially REST APIs

Have worked with background job processing (RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub, Kafka, etc.)

Strong SQL experience with any common relational database

Experience implementing standard authentication systems (e.g. OAuth using Spring Security) and have a firm understanding of how authentication works in modern web applications

Experience working on Agile/Scrum teams

Regularly practice test driven development (TDD) with unit and integration tests using frameworks like JUnit, Mockito, etc.

Be extremely comfortable working with version control and branching (e.g. Git)

Bonus skills:

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Docker

SAML/SSO

RabbitMQ

Apache Kafka

Apache Beam, Hadoop, Spark

Selenium

Jenkins

Python