Back End Developer

Engineer 2

We are looking for a skilled individual to provide valuable technical expertise to our projects and production support for our systems. When you join our team, you are part of the team that manages Enterprise Inventory to support our business in multi-market and multi-channels with a continuous aim to improve and optimize the end user experience. You’re the type of person who thrives on taking care of things the right way the first time. You excel at taking a project from scoping requirements to design, coding and actual launch of the project. When you notice a bug or an issue, you take it upon yourself to investigate and come up with an efficient and scalable solution. When you say “I’ll take care of it” we know it’ll be done well. You love working with open-source technologies and have experience with technologies & frameworks like Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Docker and Kubernetes. You can clearly articulate what building cloud native applications entails and have experience using at least one of the two major cloud platforms. (AWS, GCP). You are passionate about the virtues of writing SOLID code and can passionately explain the difference between Behavior Driven Development and Test-Driven Development to a junior developer. You have a strong desire to automate everything. You hate hearing the words “It has always been done this way” and are curious about why things are done the way they are today. You like contributing to open-source projects and believe that reading other people’s code widens your perspective and skillset. You have your stylistic preferences when it comes to code but understand the discipline it takes to keep the source code maintainable. You love troubleshooting issues and know what it takes to get that code you wrote to Production. if. You will develop and implement new technologies as well as maintain and enhance existing systems. You will create and support interfaces with internal systems, other technology teams across the company, and key external vendor applications. You will thrive in an intellectually challenging environment, solve problems and work with team members to create high quality solutions.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop innovative solutions to drive company's business.
• Have a passion for writing clean, consistent, and elegant code to create scalable and reliable systems
• Contribute towards moving the team forward in leading edge processes like continuous integration, continuous delivery, cloud migration and test-driven development
• Work with defect tracking, source code control and software release systems to ensure high-quality software releases over time
• Assist in peer code reviews and provide constructive feedback
• Contribute to the design and development process as part of a SCRUM team.
• Transition from application development to support as needed to ensure that appropriate support is available in a timely and efficient manner.
• Drive build and release plans and implementation of all actions required to deploy applications to production environment.
• Assist development manager with planning, analysis and definition of high-level software strategies and solutions through functional knowledge and an understanding of the enterprise business systems and industry.
• Have a passion for keeping yourself current with industry trends and new technologies and ability to apply trends to architectural needs
• Ensure corporate policies and industry best practices are observed and followed in developed applications.
• Participate in rotating 24x7 shifts to support developed products
• Work with business, infrastructure and security teams on delivering any enhancements and bug fixes for production systems

KEY QUALIFICATIONS

• 4+ years of professional experience in practice area
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS, Engineering or equivalent practical experience
• Experience analyzing, designing, coding, testing, installing and maintaining complex software programs
• Knowledge of Java and Java Springboot framework. Knowledge of other programming languages (like Python, React , JavaScript, C#) nice to have
• Our systems are built with a variety of technologies; therefore, applicants should have a strong grasp of multiple tech stacks
• Experience with Backend Database (preferably Spanner) or NoSQL or Postgres databases
• Experience with RESTful architecture and micro services. JSON and XML is required
• Experience with Amazon AWS/GCP services is required
• Familiarity with containerization technologies (Kubernetes, Docker) and modern development practices and development lifecycle using Scrum, Kanban, Lean or other agile methodologies
• Familiarity with CI/CD and testing tools
• Familiarity with messaging middleware (Kafka, SQS)
• Experience with writing services as well as consuming services using REST, SOAP, XML, JSON or any combination
• Emphasis on building metrics into the system and providing visibility on uptime and performance via real time alerting, reporting, and dashboards
• Sound object-oriented design skills and knowledge of application design patterns
• Experience working with diverse, collaborative, cross-functional teams
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to persuade inspire and motivate others. This includes communicating technical information to nontechnical audiences
• Experience with Retail Backgroud is a plus
• Highly self-motivated and directed .