Description: Our client is currently seeking a Sr. Backend Engineer for a Contract to hire role on W2.
Job Description:
Our direct client is looking for a Server Backend engineers work closely with Web Engineers, the Product Team, and QE to ensure seamless collaboration in the development process.
Our engineers are pragmatic in balancing priorities and thrive in an iterative model where server features are released once every two weeks.
As a Server Backend engineer your responsibilities would include owning one or more of the payment services, adding new features, resolving bugs, and refactoring/improving the codebase.
What you will do:
Design and implement REST APIs for mobile and web clients including our payment devices, web dashboard, and 3rd party apps.
Identify technical requirements in product meetings and assist the business team with realistic project planning and feature development; translate product requirements into functional, maintainable, extensible software that is in-line with company objectives.
Own your merchant-facing services /features from development through deployment and production monitoring.
Participate in design/code reviews.
Mentor junior engineers.
Partner with the Infrastructure Team to design data models to support large-scale highly available services.
Work with QA to develop test plans/strategies.
Participate in a regular on call rotation.
What you will need:
Degree in Computer Science or Engineering field.
8+ years of industry experience.
Strong coding skills: Java is our language of choice.
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, and Google Pub/Sub.
Experience with microservices, preferably Spring Boot.
Strong knowledge of relational databases, MySQL.
Experience with Cloud Technologies.
Experience with API design.
Superior problem-solving skills and debugging capabilities.
What would be great to have:
Payment's domain experience.
Ability to clearly articulate API design and technical requirements with thoughtful documentation gathering requirements, exploring alternative solutions, and implementing code along the way.
Experience with scalability and high availability; monitoring with Grafana, Datadog etc.
Security concepts.
Dependency Injection Frameworks.
Experience with a cloud platform, preferably Google Cloud.
Degree in Computer Science or equivalent Engineering field.
If available and interested, apply now.
W2 Only!!
Contact: mshadab@judge.com
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