Java Backend Engineer-AZ/Remote

Square, Inc.
yesterday

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
$ 140K

Job location

Remote

Tech stack

Github
Load Testing
GitHub Copilot
Kubernetes Helm Charts
Kubernetes
Terraform

Requirements

  • 5+ years of Java + Spring Boot microservices experience

  • 3+ years deploying and operating services on Kubernetes (GKE or AWS)

  • Hands-on JVM profiling and heap analysis experience

  • Load testing experience

  • Experience diagnosing memory leaks and latency issues in production

  • Experience triaging OOMs and P99 spikes

  • Experience identifying and remediating security vulnerabilities (dependency/CVE scanning, patching)

  • Experience with GitHub pull requests, branch protection rules, and code review workflows

  • Strong understanding of Git branching strategies (GitFlow or Trunk-Based Development)

  • Experience resolving merge conflicts and maintaining release branches

  • Familiarity with GitHub Actions or other CI/CD pipelines for automated build, testing, and deployment

Preferred (Nice to Have)

  • Experience with GitHub Copilot for developer productivity

  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code repositories (Terraform, Helm Charts)

  • Experience managing Kubernetes deployment manifests using GitOps (ArgoCD or FluxCD)

  • Experience reviewing performance-related code changes and production hotfixes through GitHub

Benefits & conditions

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