Backend developer

We are looking for a Senior Java Software Developer who is obsessed with microservices, passionate about learning new skills and solving distributed system problems impacting financial services and real-time billing systems.

Responsibilities

• Translate customer requirements and Acceptance criteria into scalable and modular components.
• Unit tests and implement automation tests for the features that you implement.
• Maintain, support, and improve our CI pipeline for the backend.
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.
• Standardize best practices and lead the team by example.
• Understand the company’s business domain and system services to identify the bounded context and communicate your findings to the team using UML diagrams and Atlassian confluence.
• Design, architect and implement a strangler pattern to slowly move legacy services into the microservices world.
• Enforce and champion a culture of automation and log monitoring.
• Build scalable and stable microservices and event driven solutions.
• Maintain, debug, and support the changes made to the microservices.
• Design, architect, and implement restful services and event streams.

Skills and Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years’ experience with java web services and/or Nodejs microservices.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience developing RESTful (Required) services, gRPC, and SOAP (optional).
• Minimum 1 year working with microservices.
• Minimum 1 year working with microservices deployment tools.
• Minimum bachelor degree in Computer Science or software engineering or Computer Engineering.
• Understanding of microservices deployment tools such as Kubernetes, Mesos, Docker swarm etc.
• Proven work experience in Reactive programming.
• Experience with event driven architecture is preferred.
• The ability to make trade-off decisions between possible and desirable, which requires a good sense of technical feasibility.
• Experience with Docker and Docker Swarm is preferred or it must be acquired in the early days.
• Experience with Elasticsearch log aggregation is preferred.
• Experience with tools such as Maven, Gradle, or Scala Build Tool (sbt).
• Experience with Kafka, MQTT, ActiveMQ, or any cloud pub/sub is preferred.
• Experience with MySQL is required.