Backend Software Engineer

• Engage in technical discussions, participate in technical designs and present technical ideas through white boarding (or online equivalent).

• Evaluate technology options to meet business needs and make appropriate trade-offs.

• Maintain code quality through best practices, unit testing and code quality automation.

• Understand the whole product, its modules and the interrelationships between them while being an expert in the assigned component or module.

• Be an expert in assessing application performance and optimizing/improving it through design and best coding practices.

• Be an expert in core data structures as well as algorithms and have the ability to implement them using language of choice.

• Use excellent communication skills to work collaboratively and effectively with global teams in an Agile setting.

• Write clear, structured documentation for designs, ensuring developers and stakeholders can easily understand and maintain the codebase, along with product documentation to support end user integration.

• Evangelise how our technology solves customer problems from a technology and business perspective.

Education Qualification

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or in "STEM" Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).

Strong professional experience.

Desired Characteristics

• Strong experience in using back-end technologies such as Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, Kafka, MinIO, and Infinispan.

• Strong experience with PostgreSQL, including performance optimization, query tuning, and schema design in a microservice environment.

• Familiarity with PostGIS for working with geospatial data in PostgreSQL.

• Experience building distributed systems including on security, analytics, throttling, caching, and logging.

• Experience designing and building performant RESTful or GraphQL APIs which serve large volumes of data

• Experience designing and developing scalable enterprise software services and components using microservices, with a focus on handling large data volumes including both relational and NoSQL databases.

• Familiarity with geospatial data ingestion and management at scale (or similar connected network paradigm).

• Experience using server-side monitoring and observability technologies such as Grafana, Kibana, Kiali, and Jaeger.

• Experience in containerization and orchestration using Docker, Helm and Kubernetes.

• Experience with Security frameworks (e.g., JWT, OATH2)

• Strong knowledge of Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, Software Design Patterns and Java coding principles.

• Experience in API documentation, for example using Swagger with REST API and GraphQL schema documentation

We value building teams diverse in thought and experiences. If you like what you've read and are excited by this opportunity, but don't meet all the requirements, we encourage you to make the jump and apply anyway.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No