backend engineer

C4 Technical Services

Richfield, MN, United States

6 days ago

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Role details

Contract type

Permanent contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Experience level

Expert

Experience required

3 years minimum

Working hours

Regular working hours

Job source

www.dice.com

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) Adobe InDesign BigQuery Relational Databases Distributed Systems PostgreSQL Performance Tuning Google Cloud Spring-boot Backend Event Driven Architecture Apache Kafka

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Marketplace Microservices

Job description

Marketplace Shopping team responsible for the pre-purchase experience of Marketplace customers, including product discovery, hierarchy, catalog management, product ranking, fulfillment options for Marketplace products, and the overall shopping experience., The Marketplace Shopping team builds and evolves services that powers pre-purchase experience for Marketplace products. This includes product catalog and hierarchy management, product ranking and re-ranking, Marketplace fulfillment options, and other services that help customers discover, evaluate, and select products. The engineer will work on highly scalable, distributed backend systems and will have opportunities to drive technical design and architecture for critical Marketplace capabilities.

Requirements

We are looking for a senior backend engineer who is a strong hands-on coder and can independently design, develop, and deliver scalable backend services for our Marketplace Shopping platform. The ideal candidate has deep experience with Java, Spring Boot, microservices, and distributed systems, with a strong understanding of system design and production-scale applications. This role requires someone who can take ownership of complex technical problems, make sound architectural decisions, participate in design discussions The candidate should be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with ambiguous requirements and should be able to drive solutions from design through implementation and production.

Skills Overview: Top five skills and number of years of experience required to perform this job?

Java - 10~15 years
Spring Boot / Microservices - 10+ years
System Design / Distributed Systems - 10+ years
Kafka / Event-driven architecture - 3+ years
PostgreSQL / Relational Databases - Strong working knowledge

What are some preferred/nice to have skills the manager is looking for?

Marketplace / e-commerce Retail experience, Spring Cache, Google Cloud Platform, BigQuery, performance optimization, experience owning large-scale production systems, and experience working with highly scalable distributed systems.