Backend Software Engineer - Remote

Backend Software Engineer - Remote

04 Dec 2024
New York, New york city, 10001 New york city USA

Backend Software Engineer - Remote

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The Backend Software Engineer plays one of the most important roles in our company’s overall platform development process. Our ideal candidate will bring deep expertise with modern software development practices and tools to create world-class, cloud-native applications running on AWS. They must have the ability to adapt quickly to shifting priorities and work effectively as part of a versatile, global development team. Candidates must also be comfortable discussing complex requirements and leading the discovery phase with various business and technical groups.
Most importantly, the ability to quickly learn and absorb a new, complex software platform is a must! Our candidate will be passionate about continuously expanding their knowledge and skillset in search of innovative, yet technically feasible, solutions for the benefit of the company.
This role sits remote/any US location. #LI-Remote

Responsibilities:
  • Collaborate with other software engineers, QA engineers, web/database development teams, data scientists, and product managers to translate business and functional requirements into technical solutions
  • Design, develop and integrate new software components into a fully functional software platform
  • Enhance and optimize cloud infrastructure for a software platform that must handle high-volume requests
  • Test and troubleshoot issues efficiently along with accurately estimating time and effort required to repair
  • Strive for top quality results and continuously look for ways to improve and enhance system reliability, performance, and security

Qualifications:
  • 3+ years of Java software development experience with large-scale applications in a continuous integration environment
  • Experience with SQL (familiarity with NoSQL databases such as Cassandra is a plus)
  • Familiarity with Aerospike.
  • Familiarity with Streaming/Messaging Platforms such as Kafka is a plus.
  • Familiarity with Maven, Jenkins, JMeter.
  • Familiarity with working in a cloud environment (AWS is a plus)
  • Experience with Git
  • Experience working on an Agile/Scrum development team using tools such as Jira to manage work requests
  • Excellent communicator and collaborator
We offer full health coverage, generous PTO, and a great office culture.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and seek to foster community, inclusion and diversity within the organization. We encourage all qualified candidates, regardless of racial, religious, sexual or gender identity, to apply. #LI-Remote

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