myGwork - LGBTQ+ Business Community · 4 days ago
Senior Backend Engineer
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Responsibilities
Functioning as senior member of an Agile team helping drive consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation).
Analyzing business features and user stories and refining with the Product Owner to appropriately support design and build activities.
Working with Product Owners to prioritize features and manage a list of technical requirements based on industry trends, new technologies, known defects, and issues.
Performing all technical development for assigned applications including architecture, design, developing prototypes, writing new code and API's and performing unit and assembly testing of developed software also as needed.
Hand-on architecture working closely with technical architects and architecture governance technical team for solution development and design reviews.
Supporting integration and performance tests and providing demo of results to technical and product partners.
Performing peer code reviews, making deliberate short and long term design decisions and keeping constant focus on clearing technical debt items in the backlog.
Enabling the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments.
Develops deep understanding of tie-ins with other systems and platforms within the core and associated domains.
Typically spends 30-50% of time writing code and testing, and remainder of time managing team and stakeholders through ongoing product/platform release sprints.
Works closely with product owners on blueprints and annual planning of feature sets that impact multiple platforms and products.
Manages and mentors teams of junior and senior engineers through ongoing sprints.
Communicating to stakeholders and business partners on the solution and the implementation aspects at the technical and/or functional level appropriate for the situation.
Identifying opportunities for adopting new technologies.
Influence team members with creative changes and improvements by demonstrating risk-taking.
Qualification
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Required
6+ years of software development experience
3+ years of development experience with Java (minimum Java 8)
Demonstrated experience in Agile development, application design, software development, and testing
Strong technical capability with an intense desire to learn new skills and industry trends
Collaborative work ethics to thrive on peer support and taking pride in of products and capabilities delivered as a team
Ability to balance priorities and break down complex problems to manageable chunks that can be delivered incrementally
Hands-on experience with Spring Boot, Micro-services, Relational and/or NoSQL databases
Demonstrated experience with object-oriented design and coding with variety of languages and proven ability to understand and use complex data structures and associated components
Deep understanding of multithreading concepts with experience of developing robust and scalable distributed server-side applications and algorithms
Must be willing and able to express new ideas, concerns and opinions directly to wider team including tech and business partners in team meetings in person or video/tele conferencing
Desirable to have experience of writing applications for deployment on cloud environment including OpenShift and Docker containers
Desirable to have experience with performance and monitoring tools e.g. Splunk and App Dynamics
Analytical skills and knack of looking for non-obvious solutions
Should have worked on RESTful API design and implementation
Implementation or working experience of Continuous Integration and Continues Delivery using tools and automation capabilities such as JUnit, Mocking, TestNG, Jenkins, Git, Stash and Jira
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Science Engineering, or related field
Preferred
Knowledge of Function As a Service (FaaS) & Lambda
Experience with Event Driven and Reactive Programming
Experience developing solutions in Payments and/or financial systems
Benefits
Competitive base salaries
Bonus incentives
6% Company Match on retirement savings plan
Free financial coaching and financial well-being support
Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits
Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy
Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
Career development and training opportunities
Company
myGwork - LGBTQ+ Business Community
myGwork is the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community.
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$4.77MKey Investors
24 HaymarketInnovate UK
2023-08-17Series Unknown· $1.66M
2023-08-17Grant· Undisclosed
2021-12-07Series A· $2.12M
Recent News
2024-04-10
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