IV -Backend Engineer

• A deep understanding of the Java language and ecosystem
• Proficiency in high/low-level design of a distributed system.
• Willingness to take ownership of the tasks and to achieve targets with minimum supervision
• Experience with SaaS, distributed, highly available, event-driven systems
• Strong problem-solving skills, a can-do attitude
• Excellent communication skills; ability to effectively present ideas and thoughts

Responsibilities:

• Work with architects and other stakeholders on polishing requirements, suggest technical solutions, and provide feasible estimates
• Transfer requirements into implementation that is focused on efficiency and quality
• Be an owner of solutions implemented, actively support them from the proof of concept through production deployment
• Focus not only on development but on running software in production. Be proactive in defining monitoring/alerting specifications, enhancing observability and traceability of all production flows
• Provide mentorship to junior team members, become a center of competence on every part of the product you contribute to
• Participate in code reviews and other efforts to maximize quality of Engage products
• Be ready to provide technical assistance and guidance to service engineering teams that answer customer requests
• Work in a distributed team spanning across multiple time zones

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in software development role building backend services using Java, Spring, REST API, Docker & K8s.
• Proven track record in delivery of event-driven, highly available, scalable, resilient enterprise grade commercial cloud services.
• Proficiency in developing Java applications. Advanced knowledge of Java Core, Collections, Multithreading & Java Memory Model, Garbage collection
• Deep understanding of micro services architecture paradigm, event driven system design, distributed systems, eventual consistency principles
• Experience developing REST services: REST manifesto, stateful/stateless services, load balancing strategies
• Strong RDBMS skills: writing advanced queries, designing table structure / indexes / triggers, query optimization / query plan analysis
• Hands on experience deploying applications using Kubernetes
• Experience working with Kafka or other messaging queues

Nice to have:

• Experience with Contact Center solutions is a plus
• Experience with AWS-native technologies (S3, DynamoDB, Athena, EC2) is a plus
• Experience with data streams processing technologies and frameworks (Apache Flink, Apache Spark) is a plus