What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Backend Engineer position at USM Business Systems?
Job Details
Role: Senior Backend Engineer- Kotlin/JVM- (Hybrid 3 days on-site/week) -
Location: New York, NY 10285
Contract to hire No Sponsorship
Start Date: ASAP
Interview Process: TBD for this team usually 2 rounds
Role | Qualifications |
Engineer II Premium
| 5 years of software development experience
The top characteristics: Able to demonstrate an understanding of computer science fundamentals (time and space complexity) Able to apply fundamentals to solve real problems (as will be done in the coding interview) Demonstrable understanding of modern application architecture and scaling practice Comfortable working with a geographically distributed team Understanding fundamentals of databases and querying performance (postgres)
Strongly favor: Comfortable working in Kotlin and applying modern kotlin styles. We can teach this if they are comfortable with either Python or Java
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Responsibilities:
- As a developer, you will be responsible for end-to-end delivery of your software from inception to production, working on a mixture of green- and brown-field projects, learning from, and contributing to your peer group.
- As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be applying your experience and earned acumen to guide the shape of our platform and help mentor and guide the team.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, software engineering, or other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience
- Understanding of service-based architectures
- Understanding of web applications and use APIs to power them
- Proven experience with live applications and production environments
- 5 years of software development experience with strong knowledge in Java/JVM/Kotlin, Rest APIs and exposure to alternate JVM languages
Technical Skills:
- Creativity & Problem-Solving
- Adaptability & Flexibility
- Aptitude for technology; curiosity, passion and startup mindset
- Applied statistics skills: distributions, statistical testing, regression analysis
- Innovative thinking
- Java/Kotlin/JVM
- Databases: Postgres, MongoDB, Redis
- Source Code Control: Working experience using GitHub, Bitbucket, RhodeCode
- Production monitoring and logging tools (i.e. CloudWatch, Prometheus, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, ELF)
- Container orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform GKE, AWS ECS, AWS EKS
- CI/CD platforms (we are using GitHub Actions)
- Other: Git, Gitflow, Jira, Gitlab, Trello, Scrum
- Frameworks: Ktor, Spring
Other Skills (that will be a plus):
- Full stack experience and willingness to dive into other levels of web applications
- Web technologies An in-depth knowledge and experience working with web technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, CSS, TypeScript, C#, SASS, Stylus, Stylus, Python, and LESS.
- React tools proficiency in Enzyme, Webpack, Redux, and Flux.
- Web frameworks Proven expertise in different frameworks like React Native, AngularJS, Angular2, VueJS, SocketIO, Backbone, KnockoutJS, Svelte, and Bootstrap.
- Open-source Libraries Demonstrable experience with JQuery, MomentJS, html5sql.js, RequireJS, and Loads.
- Software testing tools A good working knowledge in testing codes using Mocha, Jest, Unit-tests, TDD, Karma, VCS, and Selenium (base).
- Databases A familiarity of working with different databases such as MySQL, NoSQL(e.g., MongoDB), PostgreSQL, Redis is recommended.
Cloud management A strong background in different cloud platforms like Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack Apache, and Google Cloud Platform
