Senior Backend Developer

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Job Description:

Summary

Develops, builds, and maintains scalable back-end solutions in a multi-product microservice architecture. Implements, tests, and supports web services and APIs utilizing standard frameworks and source control tools. Implement unit and functional tests as well as providing testing guidance for Quality Assurance. Experienced with AWS, API integration, modern DevOps practices and cloud-based architecture. Collaborates with frontend developers, product managers, and Devops to deliver backend services. Knows modern backend technologies, development tools and frameworks, such as Ruby on Rails, Typescript, or other object-oriented languages. Strong knowledge with relational databases, such as MySQL and Postgres. Working familiarity of document databases such as Redis. 
Work is generally independent and collaborative in nature. Contributes to moderately complex aspects of a project.

Essential Functions

• Develops, builds, and maintains scalable back-end solutions in a multi-product microservice architecture.
• Actively collaborates with frontend developers, product managers, and DevOps to ensure the seamless delivery of backend services.
• Implement unit and functional tests as well as providing testing guidance for Quality Assurance.
• Contributes technical insights and supports project or product teams under guidance.
• Delivers training materials and supports peers through knowledge sharing within a cross-team setting and amongst peer groups.

Additional Responsibilities

• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills and Abilities

• Effective communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a remote-first team environment, Required
• A product-centric development mindset, optimizing for the product delivered to end users, Required
• An elevated level of ownership, with the ability to effectively work remotely with little oversight., Required
• Ability to communicate technical thoughts well through pull requests, commit messages, development stories, and documentation, Required
• Ability to write clean, testable, and well-documented code while adhering to best practices and team coding standards, Required
• An appetite for continuous improvement and learning., Required
• Ability to constructively review pull requests in a timely manner, with sufficient rigor., Required
• Ability to provide mentorship and coaching for other members of the team., Required
• Ability to form opinions about the direction and approach to the work we do, and to be vocal with those opinions. We value people who can have strong opinions, loosely held., Required

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, software engineering, or equivalent foundational experience; or 4 years of practical experience developing software, Required
• 4 years or more in Experienced with AWS, API integration, modern DevOps practices and cloud-based architecture, Required
• 4 years or more in Experience collaborating with other software engineers on the same project, Required
• 4 years or more in Hands-on experience in developing, maintaining and monitoring web applications, Required
• 4 years or more in experience collaborating with other software engineers on the same project, required, Required
• 4 years or more in Experience with version control systems, preferably Git, Required
• 4 years or more in Experience designing and implementing relational databases, as well as the tools involved (such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and ActiveRecord), Required
• 4 years or more in in the Retail, Transportation, and/or Supply Chain industries, preferred, Preferred
• Familiarity with agile methodologies and practices (e.g., Scrum, Kanban). Intermediate, Required
• A strong understanding of and experience with at least one modern web development language, ideally Ruby on Rails or Typescript. Intermediate, Required
• Proficiency with Git. Intermediate, Required
• Familiarity with strongly typed code. Intermediate, Required
• Experience building and consuming APIs, particularly RESTful ones. Intermediate, Required
• Experience with relational databases and concepts, ideally MySQL and ORMs. Intermediate, Required
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Datadog. Intermediate, Required
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform. Intermediate, Required
• Working familiarity of document databases such as Redis. Intermediate, Required