Sr. Back End Developer
Horizontal Talent

Job Info

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Job Description:

• Subscriptions is a vital part of Client business model and its strategy for growing meaningful customer relationships.
• Our team supports a substantial existing line of contracts and subscriptions and is moving toward a modular, modern platform to support new opportunities such as recurring paid membership and?streaming subscriptions.?
• We develop new subscription partnerships and offers that support all sales channels, manage vendor integration, contract lifecycle, activation, and one-time or recurring billing.
• We partner and interact with many Client systems to provide end-end engaging experience for our customers.

Project Description:

• We are building a modernization platform to replace our legacy systems.
• This includes building cloud native systems that will replace and/or enhance existing systems to a modern and modular system that can are built to scale.
• This is an opportunity to take your engineering talent and work with a myriad of teams, drive a passionate group of developers, and deliver end-end customer centric solutions.

Position Summary/Job Description:

• Provide hands-on contributions in all phases of the project lifecycle - architecture, design, development, MVP, and Dev Ops of key technology initiatives.
• Work closely with product owners, engineers, and business stakeholders to lead feature implementation on multi-sprint initiatives.
• Work with modern engineering concepts including Microservices, agile development methodology, test-driven development, continuous integration, and deployment practices.
• Bring a creative and innovation-driven mindset with the ability to articulate engineering design strategies related to scale, performance, security, and usability.
• Build high-performance, highly available and scalable distributed systems.
• Accountable and responsible for code and design reviews, aggressive refactoring and collaborating with other engineers on the team.
• Anticipate and solve technical issues and make architectural and design decisions to avoid those issues.
• Work closely with test engineers to help build test automation frameworks and CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate effectively on cross-functional projects including representing the team in cross-team collaboration.
• Proactively mitigate high impact risks to prevent them from turning into issues and support efforts to manage and resolve issues in Production.
• Occasionally facilitating scrum ceremonies (backlog grooming, story design, retro, etc.).

How much time will the resource spend pair programming?

• 20% or less

Skills Overview:
What are the top five skills and number of years of experience required to perform this job?

• 8+ years of experience implementing and deploying modern application development technologies such as Java, Groovy, Spring, REST-based web services, SQL and NoSQL databases
• 4+ years of experience with modern engineering concepts and technologies including microservices, cloud-native applications.
• Knowledge of and working experience with open-source software as well as networks, security, firewalls, load balancers, DNS, and other infrastructure components
• Experience with Off-heap caching solutions, such as Redis or Memcached, Continuous integration workflows using tools like GitHub, Jenkins.
• Experience designing and implementing role-based access control features.
• Knowledge of and working experience with different components of systems such as networks, security, firewalls, and other infrastructure components including zero trust model.
• Test-driven development, refactoring, automated unit test, integration test, functional test, and continuous integration/deployment.

What are some preferred/nice to have skills the manager is looking for?

• Cloud experience

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