What are the responsibilities and job description for the Java Backend Engineer position at Accelon Inc?
Java Backend Engineer
Hybrid - Austin, TX - The US)
Description
As a member of the Checkout Engineering team, you will be responsible for the development and delivery of the applications and services that power Our Clients Checkout user experiences. You will work closely with product, design, and analytics teams to understand what the buyers and merchants using our software desire from us. We're looking for talented, motivated and detail-oriented technologists with a passion for building beautiful products and experiences. We value collaboration, communication, and a passion for achieving engineering and product excellence.
The client Checkout Engineering, has built experiences used by millions of merchants and shoppers worldwide, and our team is on a mission to provide sophisticated, tailor-made experiences to all of our users. Client has been at the forefront of building global-scale applications and is a pioneer in the payment's realm. Our passionate engineers continually question assumptions, experiment with new technologies and architectures, and collaborate to create engaging and innovative payment experiences.
As a backend engineer for Client Checkout, you will deliver complete solutions and features spanning all phases of our software development lifecycle. In this role, you will be responsible for shaping the future of Our Clients customer-facing checkout products. This will be accomplished through the implementation of technical designs, direct contributions to architectural decisions, influencing the technical direction of our applications / systems and mentoring of junior engineers. You will be responsible for developing industry-leading experiences that bring unquestionable value to both merchants and buyers. You will use your years of technical expertise and a solid understanding of the business domain to help us improve the scale, reliability, and performance of our platforms.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to a team of software engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Demonstrate end-to-end ownership of features, projects, modules, and services that you and your team deliver in all phases of the software development lifecycle.
- Lead your team's design and implementation of end-to-end solutions towards client-side applications using Java, J2EE, and other relevant technologies.
- Lead architectural discussions and contribute to the overall technical direction of the client-side applications, advocating for best practices and innovative solutions.
- Proactively optimize software performance, identifying and resolving bottlenecks via monitoring, logging, and metrics to enhance the user experience.
- Act as a strong advocate for clean, scalable, high-performing, secure, and reliable software services, in all areas, including coding, documentation, automation, etc.
- Proactively identify and implement critical non-functional requirements (Availability, security, performance, scalability, and observability), improve automated test strategies, and build and deploy processes to enable speedy and reliable continuous integration.
- Collaborate with other development teams to ensure seamless integration and deployment of client-side applications, automating and enhancing build, test, and deployment processes.
- Communicate effectively with all technical and non-technical partners and stakeholders (Architecture, developer experience, product, design, analytics, legal, marketing, etc.) and within your team to ensure a shared understanding of the new products and features under consideration.
- Conduct formal and informal code reviews, providing constructive feedback to team members to ensure code quality and adherence to clean and scalable coding principles.
- Mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering their professional growth and promoting a collaborative and knowledge-sharing environment.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest industry standards, tools, and technologies related to client-side development, observability, and DevOps practices, and drive their adoption within the team.
- Participate in program planning, influencing the product and technology roadmap and driving outcomes.
Qualifications
Please note we only hired under a W-2 contract with the best rates.
