About the job

Type: Full Time

Location: Hybrid

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
• 7+ years of experience in developing software in Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, and related stack
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and software development principles
• Proficiency with OOP concepts, large-scale software architecture, networking and distributed system and UNIX/Linux environments
• Experience with data modeling and database design with focus on performance
• Experience with Relational (especially PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases
• Experience with service-oriented architecture (especially REST)
• Knowledge of Cloud Services and cloud native application development (AWS, especially EC2, ECS, RDS, S3, Lambda)
• Expert-level understanding of CI/CD principles, know-how of various tools, and passionate focus on CI/CD practices
• Experience with containerization and orchestration frameworks such as Docker and/or Kubernetes
• Strong unit test and debugging skills
• Proficiency in code versioning tools such as Git
• Strong sense of analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Highly effective time management and multitasking skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Fluent in English

Preferred qualifications:

• Basic understanding of front-end technologies such as JavaScript, React, HTML5 and CSS3
• Prior experience with SCRUM/Agile methodologies
• Contributions to open-source projects
• Experience with purchasing and/or ERP systems

About The Role

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be responsible for developing key technical solutions for complex purchasing and supply chain business problems. As a member of our engineering team, you will be expected to be a team player, be an owner of the product, and contribute and add meaningful innovation to our development. You will have a significant opportunity to be an important part of Sourcing Value. You will collaborate very closely with all other teams to assist in their functions.

Responsibilities

• Writing well-designed, reusable, testable, and secure code by applying best software development practices
• Designing and implementing low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Architecting well-defined APIs for user-facing elements developed by frontend developers
• Investigate 3rd party tools and assess fit to various requirements such as data management, performance, and security
• Create flow diagram cases
• Collaborating in a multi-disciplinary team
• Participating and conducting code reviews
• Troubleshooting system-level integration and performance issues
• Discovering, learning and implementing new technologies
• Improving the coding standards and processes within the team
• Documenting the software components
• Mentoring junior team members in best practices, pair programming, giving internal trainings, etc.