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Software Engineer III

Zipcar
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 18 Feb 2025

About the role

Company:          Zipcar, Inc.

Location:            Charlotte, NC

Position Title:    Senior Backend Engineer

Job Description:

Create world-class APIs for web, mobile, and external teams supporting over a million members. Work collaboratively with product designers, product managers and quality engineers to deliver innovative new solutions and applications for a market leader in the mobility space. Develop and release scalable, high-performance applications. Strive for continuous improvement of the Zipcar member experience. Coach and mentor other engineers and provide technical leadership. Contribute to review and scope product requirements with Product Managers and UX designers. Collaborate with full stack and backend engineers in developing cross-functional products through feature development and integrations with other microservice components. Provide technical feedback to QA engineers for test cases creation and participate in test driven development. Position is fixed location based in Charlotte office, however, telecommuting from a home office may also be allowed. 

Job Requirements:

Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a directly related field plus two (2) years of experience in a developer position working in an ecommerce environment. 

Must have two (2) years of experience in each of the following (experience may be gained concurrently):

  • Microservices, SQL and NoSQL, RESTful endpoints
  • JavaScript, Docker, and Kubernetes
  • DevOps, CI and CD, SDLC, and testing best practices in an Agile environment
  • Mentoring, reviewing and giving constructive feedback to other engineers
  • Applying Design Patterns to software architecture problems
  • Developing distributed web applications with high performance and scalable
  • Debugging skills to investigate and resolve production issues within time constraints

Must have one (1) year of experience in each of the following (experience may be gained concurrently):

  • Experience in one of the following Server-side scripting languages: JavaScript, jQuery, JSON, bootstrap, Node.js, Angular.js, Backbone.js, Ext.js, Responsive design and JSP 

40 hours/week, 9:00am-5:00pm.

To apply: Send resumes to zipcarrecruiting@zipcar.com.

Boston

Massachusetts

United States of America

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