Back End Developer

Job Description:
Tell us about your department:
This role is on the Marketplace Platform team. The team's primary goal is to build integrations with third parties sellers allowing them to sell products within Client's e-commerce.
Project Description:
In this role, the engineer will be working on projects and programs spanning multiple applications and integrations.
Candidates would be responsible for feature design and development across multiple applications, as well as defect resolution, performance testing and analysis, etc.
Candidates may also be asked to take on a technical leadership role in programs which primarily touch on new integrations for external marketplaces, whether these consist of adding new partners or expanding existing integrations to offer new modes of fulfillment.
Position Summary/Job Description:
We are looking for highly skilled backend engineers to help us build out our applications on the Marketplace Platform team. These engineers will extend and support running applications & assist in the design and development of new applications. They will be expected to evaluate and refactor in a rapid manner for every part of our infrastructure. Overall knowledge of designing an application to run on a scalable platform is expected. They will be working in an agile environment which values test-driven development and pair programming in a pragmatic way. Primary responsibilities include:
Developing JVM/Spring web applications (Java, Groovy, etc.)
Iterative, frequent refactoring
Object Oriented Programming and Service Oriented Architecture design
Collaborating with other team members to reduce knowledge silos, mitigate risk and drive team practices towards continuous improvement
Self-direction by default (actively seeking work that advances team goals and priorities rather than waiting for work to be assigned)
Skills Overview:
What are the top five skills and number of years of experience required to perform this job?
Minimum:
5 years software development
4 years Agile/XP development
4 years Java and/or other JVM languages, etc.
4 years Unit testing (with use of mocking via Spock/Mockito/EasyMock or equivalent)
3 years Gradle and/or Maven or equivalent build/dependency management tooling
2 years with relational and/or NoSQL databases
2 years with messaging technologies such as IBM MQ, Rabbit MQ, Kafka, etc.
Preferred:
10 years software development
8 years Agile/XP development
8 years Java and/or other JVM languages, etc.
8 years Unit testing (with use of mocking via Spock/Mockito/EasyMock or equivalent
6 years Gradle and/or Maven or equivalent build/dependency management tooling
Additional Information :
What are some preferred/nice to have skills the manager is looking for?
Experience with large-scale distributed systems and client-server architectures
Developing Spring/Java/Gradle applications (or Spring/Groovy/Maven, etc.)
Strong unit-testing skills and integration testing skills
Object-oriented programming and experience with Design Patterns
Experience with event-driven and/or message-driven architectures
Experience with Spock framework
An inclination towards Pair Programming for complex features and as a teaching/learning tool
Experience working in a Continuous Integration environment
Service Oriented Architecture design
Experience in retail, specifically eCommerce is useful