Senior Back End Developer

Job Purpose

ICE Mortgage Technology is the leading cloud-based platform provider for the mortgage finance industry. ICE Mortgage Technology solutions enable lenders to originate more loans, reduce origination costs, and reduce the time to close, all while ensuring the highest levels of compliance, quality and efficiency.

In this Senior Software Engineer role, you will be working in a dynamic development team while collaborating with other developers, product management and customer support teams. You will have an opportunity to participate in designing and developing services utilized across product lines. All our products are deployed in public (AWS) and/or private cloud environments.

This role will be mostly remote with a need to come in for important meetings.

Responsibilities

• Develop software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle
• Able to lead small teams, run planning meetings and facilitate accurate estimation of tasks
• Develops models of business functionality through prototyping. Participates in design and code review and code management.
• Interact with Product Management to understand and gather business requirements.
• Interact with other Teams to resolve dependencies.
• Assessing the efficiency of technologies, instruments, and equipment.
• Use projects best practices and coding standards.
• Remove the technical impediments.
• Conduct project risk identification and mitigation action planning with the Engineering Manager.
• Assist with the planning and execution of the projects.
• Create technical designs and documentation.

Knowledge and Experience

• 5+ years of direct experience with modern web stacks, design, development and deployment of high volume web applications and APIs.
• Working knowledge of relational database design and management.
• History of building resilient, stateless, scalable, distributed and observable systems.
• Experience in building services (REST and SOAP) with high focus on performance.
• Expertise with microservices and knowledge of modern cloud services (AWS).
• Practical perspective on software engineering discipline, focus on learning and delivering, and passion for high quality.
• You build it You own it mentality is a must. Sense of ownership is paramount to achieving success.
• Great energy and enthusiasm with a positive, collaborative working style, clear communication and writing skills.

Technology stack

• Java 8+/Spring Boot
• RESTful microservices
• SQL/PostgreSQL
• Apache Kafka
• AWS
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Terraform