Back End Developer

Job Overview

We are looking for a talented Back-End Developer to help us with our growing needs. Your ability to create scalable, maintainable, and performant software is critical to the entire company's success. We are looking for team players who can deliver imaginative solutions under real deadline constraints. You will be a part of a team of professionals who are dedicated to the same mission. We push each other, learn from each other, and strive to grow continually.

Responsibilities:

• Writing clean, well-organized, testable, and reusable code
• Continue to improve our existing product with new ideas and fine-tuning/adjusting our platform
• Produce clean, reliable code that you test before pushing
• Identifying and addressing performance bottlenecks with other engineers to consistently improve performance
• Ability to be occasionally on call
• Take direction from the Senior Software Engineer on features, while working with the Team to ensure the technical aspects fit our technical goals

Required Qualifications and Experience:

• 7+ years (4+ years for Intermediate) of Java developer experience with from-scratch systems - comfortable without an established and documented framework.
• 5+ years (2+ years for Intermediate) of experience working with databases (Snowflake experience is plus, PostgreSQL, MySQL). Solid understanding of the inner workings of indexes, and optimization.
• Strong SQL skills
• Strong, proven track record of OOP & REST design principals
• Basic knowledge of Networking/Protocols
• Basic knowledge of encryption
• Java 8+ / Sprint / Spring Boot / Hibernate / Strut / JPA and Maven
• Kafka, Redis, ActiveMQ experience is a plus
• Demonstrated experience working with a team to deliver software
• Possess the passion to design, build and polish innovative applications
• Client / Server development experience
• Linux based servlet containers and web servers
• Linux shell scripting and remote management via SSH
• Git / BitBucket
• Bachelor's / Master’s degree (or equivalent experience)

Nice to Have:

• Gaming experience (Payment, Game integration, KYC)
• Stripes framework experience is a plus
• Experience writing distributed systems in a Cloud Computing environment such as AWS strongly preferred
• Java 17 experience
• Mockito experience
• Working knowledge of Docker / Kubernetes
• Experience with contest-logic programming, sports, gaming, etc.
• Snowflake / PostgreSQL / MySQL issue tracking and performance tuning
• Proven experience in a high traffic / high demand environment
• Experience solving bottleneck issues with code, via optimization of logic or threading