Backend Developer (Java)

As a Software Engineer, you will play the role of a technical expert in one of our squads. Additionally, you will drive the design, implementation & delivery of one or more products owned by your squad.

Responsibilities:

• Taking an active role in team delivery of product and engineering goals.
• Delivering high-quality, maintainable, and reusable software systems.
• Making technical contributions, and providing technical leadership to software engineers by coaching and mentoring through engineering best practices.
• Influencing team direction towards achievement of high-priority initiatives (to maximize our impact on the public good)
• Establishing practices and tools to encourage a strong engineering culture and maximize engineering effectiveness and impact.
• Independently managing external (to the team) dependencies related to your work items.
• Working with other leaders to create a long-term technical plan and roadmap for the assigned squads, and for other squads as needed. Updating the roadmap regularly to meet future product/business needs and infrastructure requirements.

Requirements:

• Experience working on reasonably large, high-availability software systems that have operated at scale.
• Experience in modern web application technologies; experience in modern back-end engineering on Java and Spring Boot.
• Have a strong sense of what it means to be a technical leader, particularly as it relates to the suite of soft skills beyond just your technical chops.
• Passion towards engineering excellence; you deeply understand that software engineering is a team sport, and you take pride in the craftsmanship aspect of software engineering.
• Interest and experience in coaching and growing junior engineers.