Senior Software Engineer

Description

The company is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build backend software components and microservices for large-scale, distributed applications.

The role covers the full software lifecycle, from requirements through maintenance, and works in an agile setting with product managers, architects, designers and other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, debug and document backend components and microservices that fit the system architecture and business needs.
• Work with cross-functional teams to turn requirements into working software.
• Take part in every stage of the lifecycle: gathering requirements, analysis, design, implementation, testing, deployment and upkeep.
• Hold code to coding standards, best practices and quality guidelines.
• Design and build efficient, scalable database solutions, maintain stored procedures, and tune queries to cut latency and find bottlenecks.
• Keep improving the performance, scalability and reliability of systems.
• Spot weak points and inefficiencies, and fix them or the problems customers report.
• Set up Kafka clusters, brokers and topics, and keep message queues healthy, available and fast.
• Investigate defects and production issues raised by internal teams or customers, analyse logs, find root causes and ship fixes.
• Integrate with internal and external systems alongside other engineering teams, keeping data flowing smoothly between them.
• Write up software designs, technical specifications and development processes.
• Share knowledge and good practice with teammates.
• Assess new tools, technologies and approaches that could improve functionality and performance, and recommend them.
• Join sprint planning and help the team meet its goals.

Requirements

• Either a Master's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, any engineering discipline or a related field, plus 1 year of software engineering or related experience, or a Bachelor's degree or equivalent in the same fields, plus 3 years of software engineering or related experience.
• Hands-on work with Java, Spring, Hibernate and Apache frameworks.
• Experience designing large distributed systems that are scalable, available and performant.
• Working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases, data structures and algorithms.
• Experience running Kafka clusters and managing topics and partitions.
• Experience across the software lifecycle, from requirements through deployment.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure for building and deploying scalable applications.
• Experience designing and building APIs, including RESTful architecture and integration.
• Experience diagnosing and fixing complex software problems.
• Experience working in agile teams using JIRA.
• Experience with unit testing frameworks, test-driven development and clean, maintainable code.
• Experience writing technical documentation such as design specs, user guides and architecture diagrams.
• Experience integrating GraphQL subgraphs to connect frontend and backend.
• Experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration and service deployment.
• Experience with Azure Blob Storage and Cosmos DB.
• Experience with CI/CD using Jenkins for automated builds and deployments.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools, including Grafana, Prometheus and MMS Monitoring.
• Experience building test coverage for production-grade systems.
• Any amount of professional experience with these skills is accepted.

Conditions

Pay runs from $143,104 to $216,000 per year, with annual or quarterly performance incentives on top.

Equal opportunity employer.

Benefits

• Competitive pay and performance-based incentive awards.
• Medical, vision and dental coverage.
• 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance.
• PTO including sick leave, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty and voting time.
• Short-term and long-term disability cover.
• Education assistance, with company-paid college degrees at 100%.
• Company discounts, military service pay and adoption expense reimbursement.
• Some benefits depend on job classification and length of employment, and plans may change under their own terms.