Software Engineer III

• Translate use cases into functional applications
• Design, build, test deploy, and maintain efficient, reusable, reliable and scalable backend services and API's
• Participate in design, code, test and architecture/design discussions and peer reviews, and contribute to technical decision-making and tradeoff discussions
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve issues in existing applications
• Consistently improve maintainability and stability, and observability of the codebase
• Ensure high performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
• Identify performance bottlenecks and develop solutions
• Identify and implement key application metrics, logging, and monitoring solutions (e.g., CloudWatch)
• Research and utilize new technologies where they can be evaluated and introduced into production systems when appropriate
• Contribute to task estimations and schedules
• Collaborate with product & business operations teams to translate business requirements and build highly robust and scalable products
• Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, plus 4-7 years of professional software engineering experience in production environments
• Strong foundation in Computer Science fundamentals including object-oriented design, algorithm design, data structures, problem solving, and complexity analysis
• Proficiency in Java and Object-Oriented Programming
• Experience with advanced Java features such as Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP)
• Ability to write clean, readable, secure code and adhere to team's coding guidelines
• Experience developing and maintaining RESTful and event-driven microservices
• Hands-on experience designing and operating scalable services within distributed systems
• Applied experience with various design & architectural patterns and implementing them
• Experience with SQL and NOSQL databases
• Experience with versioning tools such as Git
• Experience with AWS services including compute (EC2/Lambda), storage (S3), and messaging
• Experience supporting applications in production, including debugging, monitoring, and incident resolution
• Experience working with systems that handle real-world scale, concurrency, or high-availability requirements
• Ability to work well independently, as well as collaboratively, to take initiative, and to maintain productivity under pressure in a fast-paced environment
• Strong organizational skills that reflect ability to perform and prioritize multiple tasks with excellent attention to detail
• Excellent inter-personal, and communication skills, ability to engage with users and stakeholders across disciplines, verbally and in writing
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Professional experience using at least one additional backend language (e.g., Node.js or Python) in a production setting
• Demonstrated curiosity and continuous learning mindset, with a track record of delivering maintainable production systems
• Ability to propose pragmatic, scalable solutions aligned with business and technical constraints

Strong Pluses

• Expertise in Node.js, Experience with serverless application development and AWS Lambda or Fargate, Experience with GraphQL, Containerization and Kubernetes, & Experience supporting and troubleshooting high availability, real time, production AWS application
• Familiarity with following technologies

• Kafka
• Kinesis
• Helm
• AWS cloud services
• Java Reactive Programming
• Kubernetes
• Bitbucket Pipelines
• Docker
• Mongo database

• Know-how or adoption of latest cutting-edge technologies
• A working knowledge of agile software development methodologies
• Ability to interact with diverse groups of people including remote and offshore team
• Master's in Computer Science or equivalent

Success Profile

• You have independently delivered backend services to production and supported them post-launch
• You are comfortable debugging complex distributed systems and identifying root causes across services
• You can own features end-to-end, from design through deployment and monitoring

Please note: Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. on a permanent basis. We are unable to provide sponsorship at this time.

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