JOB PURPOSE – WHAT WILL YOU DO: The Senior Backend Engineer will work with a team of talented engineers to develop scalable and high-performance core platform services in a predominantly Spring framework. The role focuses on hands-on programming and architecture contributions while interfacing with engineering and design teams, and quality for our products with an emphasis on iteratively learning actions. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES – WHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR: • Assists in defining software architectures – Collaborates with leads to explore existing systems, determines areas of complexity, potential risks to successful implementation, learns the applications capabilities • Builds software applications primarily for the JVM platform – Follows coding standards, has a great programming discipline. • Maintain and enhance distributed applications. • Maintain and enhance backend and middleware services (micro-services style) • Build a healthy team environment via professional collaboration. • Enjoy working in a fast paced and challenging environment. Just like a visionary startup. • Ownership and responsibility of work. • Bring professional attitude at work and belief in team effort SKILLS/COMPETENCIES REQUIRED – WHAT YOU WILL NEED: • Passionate, energetic, driven to achieve progress and growth by thinking above and beyond • Always hustling and ready to take on big bold bets • Customer obsessed, earning their trust and solving their problems • Results driven, effectively overcoming obstacles and challenging the status quo • Can act as one team. Able to work with and contribute to a team environment towards a shared vision and mission • Strong communication and soft skills, able to motivate, mentor and help fellow developers as well as communicate complex ideas effectively • Detail-oriented and exceptional organizational skills • Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to interact at all levels of the organization • Exercises independence and self-motivation while still being able to work with others collaboratively • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, high-energy environment • Self-motivated with positive energy JOB PREREQUISITES (EDUCATION, PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE ETC) • 6+ years of professional experience • Bachelor's in Computer Science / Engineering or related field • Strong proficiency in Java, Spring framework technologies and Spring cloud services • Deep functional knowledge or hands-on experience in Microservices development is a must. • Understanding fundamental design principles behind scalable applications. • Ability to multitask, recommend and enforce industry best practices and patterns. • Strong understanding the nature of transactional and asynchronous programming across microservices topology. • Strong understanding of security standards, such as Oauth2 • Strong experience in SQL/noSQL programming, such as MySQL, Elasticsearch • Strong experience in Docker containerization • Strong experience in Amazon web services • Strong understanding of code versioning tools / Source Code Management (Git, GitHub, Bitbucket) • Ability to operate effectively both independently as well and within a team using Agile methodology. • Ability to use, track, and respond to all work assignments using JIRA based ticketing system Originally posted on Himalayas