About Eightpoint

Eightpoint is an internet technology company specializing in the agile development of products and content that address real-world interests, captivating users and driving significant growth for partners. With offices in the United States and Cayman Islands, Eightpoint collaborates with partners globally on the next generation of user-centric offerings. Our growing ecosystem includes innovative products like Weather Now, a sleek app that delivers real-time forecasts with clarity and ranks among the top three most-used weather apps in the U.S.; Check Heart Rate Now, a quick and easy wellness monitor; and Wave Browser, a powerful and secure way to search the web. Every product we launch is designed to engage users, enhance daily life, and deliver real-world value. Backed by data and driven by a relentless commitment to quality, Eightpoint moves fast, thinks big, and builds digital experiences that people love.

About the Role

As a Backend Engineer, you will manage multiple backends deployed on AWS. The position will be focused on building, maintaining, and improving current and future backends used to serve our apps. In this role, you will be expected to take ownership by creating, testing and deploying production-ready code.

Here at Eightpoint, we are innovators in the app space. Building apps, creating tools, and developing experiences that users want. As a backend engineer, you will have autonomy to modify and enhance the backend you build and maintain. Close collaboration with our iOS Development, BIA and User Acquisition teams will occur daily. You will participate in building back-end processes and optimizations, creating & collecting content for the apps & designing and deploying cutting edge user experiences.

Key Responsibilities

• Coding: Building a robust backend using Kotlin with Spring Boot, and deploying it on AWS Kubernetes clusters
• Infrastructure: Improve the existing Terraform code
• Maintain: Existing backend and infrastructure code and keep any new infrastructure change from Terraform not from the AWS Web UI
• Observability: Supervise the existing services on AWS to work smoothly without downtime. Manage any alerts and clear them when they happen.

Who You Are

• 3+ years’ development experience, with advanced knowledge of Java, Spring Boot, RESTful services
• Good understanding of Java Design Patterns
• Experience with implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Experience with SQL (PostgreSQL)
• Experience with AWS: Lambdas, S3, Kubernetes, CloudWatch, Route53
• Experience with Terraform to develop and maintain infrastructure as a code
• Experience with code versioning using Git