Java Developer

Senior Backend Engineer

Location: Austin, TX Onsite/WFH: 3 days onsite, 2 days WFH Contract: 8+ Months Rate: $50 - $60/hr

Interview Process

• Codesignal Test
• 2 x 60-minute Technical Interviews
• 1 x 30-minute Culture Fit Interview with Hiring Manager

We are seeking a strong individual contributor backend engineer with hands-on experience architecting and building large-scale distributed web applications. You should be able to own the end-to-end architecture from front-end to back-end systems and guide the team on core technical design.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with peers, Architects, Product Managers, Business Analysts, Quality Engineers, and Operations teams to develop innovative solutions that meet functional and non-functional standards and expectations.
• Be involved in development, testing, release, triage, bug fix, documentation, and work in an Agile environment. Use of tools like JIRA, Git, CI/CD, and other internal tools on a regular basis to organize work and deliver features.
• Evaluate and define storage needs and make technology recommendations, define domain services and interface definitions, and testing architecture.
• Design and build high-performing, reliable solutions for high-throughput, distributed systems using a variety of third-party and internal libraries and frameworks.
• Participate in technical design and code reviews and provide feedback to other engineers on the team.
• Estimate engineering efforts, roadmap planning, and be responsible for operational processes, such as automation and controls, to help with efficiency and quality of both manual and technical operations.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field plus 8+ years of experience in Java in building large-scale web-based distributed systems.
• Thorough understanding of computer science fundamentals, data structures, and algorithms, and extensive experience in building highly available, scalable, and robust applications.
• Excellent object-oriented design and coding skills in Java or other OO languages. Hands-on experience using unit/integration test frameworks like Karate to build fully automated software applications.
• Solid understanding of relational and NoSQL databases, data storage/access patterns, caching techniques, messaging systems, and asynchronous workflows.
• Experience with bug triaging and debugging techniques, logging and monitoring systems, application and query performance tuning.
• Good understanding of web services and SOA related standards like REST/OAuth/JSON.
• Familiarity with front-end technologies and patterns is desirable.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.