Senior Software Developer, Backend
Skills
Computer ScienceFront-End DevelopmentJavaSoftware DevelopmentAgile Software DevelopmentEnglishFunctionality
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- Strong foundations in computer science, in particular data structures, concurrent programming, distributed services, databases, etc.
- Experience developing web services in Java or Go using REST
- Understanding test-driven development practices including writing and maintaining unit tests
- Experience with developing software using Agile software development
- Building and deploying applications to Amazon Web Services
- Strong communication skills in English
- Ability to take initiative and propose solutions
- Preferred Experience developing/architecting highly available services
- Preferred Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field
Nice to have
- Self-directed
- Fast learner
- Flexible
- Strong foundations in computer science
- Experience with Java or Go
- Understanding of test-driven development
- Experience with AWS
- Strong communication skills in English
- Ability to take initiative
- Experience with highly available services
- Degree in Computer Science or related field
Day to day
- Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic
- Build reusable code and libraries for future use
- Optimize the application for maximum speed and scalability
- Implement security and data protection
- Design and implement new functionality in our web products
- Apply test-driven development practices including writing and maintaining unit tests
- Work closely with our test team to ensure automated testing has appropriate coverage
- Evaluate and choose new technologies and libraries to incorporate into our products
- Contribute to team’s best practices to ensure fast delivery of new code
- Ensure that the new developments are properly monitored with appropriate metrics that allow observability
- Troubleshoot and fix technical bugs
- Run performance benchmarking tests