Remote Backend Engineer — Java Data

What You’ll Do

• Develop high-quality applications using extreme programming (XP) practices and a user-centric approach
• Participate in the entire application lifecycle in collaboration with designers, product managers and other engineers on the product team
• Leverage critical thinking, experimentation, data and industry best practices to achieve desired business outcomes
• Contribute to product engineering and software standards
• Influence the team to reduce the toil received from production, advocate for product reliability and influence the benefits of tech debt reduction with matrices
• Develop self and support the development of others through accountability and continuous learning
• Adapt to constant change and model that for the rest of the team
• Evaluate a user story for technical context, feasibility, acceptance criteria, testability and estimation

Additional tasks may be assigned

• Experience in Java and JEE development, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Batch, Spring Security
• Knowledge of build management tools such as Gradle or Maven
• Demonstrated understanding of source control systems such as GIT
• Database design and implementation experience in either SQL or No
  
  SQL databases
• Experience working with distributed caching technologies such as Redis
• Knowledge of full SDLC requirements gathering, planning, estimation, development, testing, and deployment

• Experience in SQL, Python, Spark, Kafka and Airflow
• Experience in build management and Dev Ops using Gitlab, docker, linux scripting
• Data modeling and design experience, including Bigquery, SQL or PL/SQL
• Good understanding of data as a product or data mesh topologies using cloud data lakes like Google Big Query, Amazon Redshift or Snowflake
• Experience designing and implementing data pipelines using Apache Airflow, Spark, Python/Scala
• Knowledge of real-time streaming technologies like Kafka connect, and Flume for messaging and streaming pipelines
• Knowledge of handling PCI/PII data adhering to compliance standards like GDPR, PCI DSS, SOX, CCPA
• Experience in the design and integration of GenAI tools and technologies like OpenAI, Gemini and Llama LLMs

• A passion for stellar user experience and design
• Proficient in NodeJS and ECMAScript standards
• Deep understanding of CSS patterns and HTML
• Understanding of responsive design
• Proficient in React and one other modern UI framework like Angular, Ember, or Vue.js
• Can compose CSS on the fly

• Knowledge of Java and Kotlin for Android
• Experience working with notifications and background tasks in apps
• Collaborate with iOS, Android, and Server engineers to ship features
• Experience with making REST calls over the network
• Have designed and developed a complete Android app from top to bottom

• Experience building UI/UX with the use of Storyboards and Nibs/Xibs
• Experience with making REST calls over the network
• Comfortable working with Xcode, Interface Builder, Objective-C/C++ and Swift
• Collaborate with iOS, Android, and Server engineers to ship features
• Knowledge of the roles that tools such as clang, swiftc, ld, actool, ibtool, codesign play in the process of generating build/test artifacts

• Experience with integration platforms or frameworks
• Experience integrating with large SaaS systems
• Experience migrating on-prem systems to cloud solutions
• Experience executing integration testing strategies

• Confident in Spring Boot, Kotlin, and Java
• Proven experience in frontend development and frameworks React
  
  JS, NextJS
• Proven experience in MS SQL Server and PostgreSQL
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes
• Experience in large scale migrations - Kafka and Postgres Connectors
• Experience in Android, React, and .NET

• 2+ years of experience in software development
• Knowledge of application design patterns, event-driven architecture, database schemas and testing strategies
• Knowledge and experience with continuous integration, continuous deployment and test-driven development

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in MIS, Computer Science or related field
• Experience with large-scale application troubleshooting and performance tuning
• Exposure to working with major cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
• Familiarity and experience with XP (Extreme Programming)