Software Development Engineer - Backend

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Our customers are our compass, authenticity thrives, bold ideas are welcome, and everyone can bring their unique selves to work — every day. We're in this together, sustaining the future of our customers, our company, and our planet.

Join a team of passionate thinkers, innovators, and dreamers — and help us connect people and build communities to create economic opportunity for all.

As a member of the GraphQL champions, you will work directly with senior technology leaders and product owners to transform our business and technology capabilities. You will streamline product integration processes using Apollo GraphQL Federation. You focus on guidelines and help translate use cases into API contracts. You lead query performance cost analysis and security requirements for components. You advocate for standards, error handling, and client integration options. You continuously learn and improve the development and procedures, quickly prototyping sample solutions in Node.js or Spring Boot. You collaborate within a community of architecture leaders tasked with establishing and evolving a unified architecture vision.

Responsibilities

• Providing leadership for Spring Boot/DGS GraphQL Federation build and implementation
• Ownership of highly critical production systems
• Enabling high availability and efficiency
• Collaborating with teams responsible for other foundational systems
• Supporting product teams in GraphQL learning and migration, championing GraphQL federation and schema build
• Advocating for GraphQL adoption and guidelines

Qualifications

• 2+ years of industry experience
• BSCS, BSEE, or other equivalent technical degree or equivalent experience
• Experience in object-oriented build methodology and large-scale application development in one or more of the following: Java
• Experience in backend development; proficiency in Spring Boot and relevant technologies is a big plus
• Experienced in Agile development environments; flexible, adaptable, and able to deliver in large development projects in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Self-motivated and fast learner with excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal, and analytical skills

The base pay range for this position is expected in the range below:

$98,000 - $173,600

Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a target bonus and restricted stock units (as applicable) in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as PTO and parental leave). Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired, employees will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

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