Backend Developer

Job Description

Our Developers know their stuff – they're busy working independently and setting high standards.  

As a Backend Engineer, you are part of a Software Development Team, responsible for the full lifecycle of an application.  

Reporting to a Delivery Manager in a delivery team formed by 5 Developers and 1 QA, you will be using cutting-edge technologies to deliver amazing value to our customers, while scaling our platform to meet the demands of worldwide markets. You will be required to program well-designed, testable, efficient code to solve business needs, as well as testing and documenting the implemented solutions.  

You will have a bias for action and can break down complex problems into steps that drive the scalability, performance and stability of our products. 

What you will be doing... 

As a team player in an Agile Team, working together to keep delivering at pace, scale and with demanded quality to support our products, you will be able to: 

• Execute full software development life cycle
• Develop flowcharts, layouts and documentation to support the Product Owner with requirements and the team with solutions
• Autonomously write well-designed, testable and efficient code
• Produce specifications and determine operational feasibility 
• Integrate software components into a fully functional software system
• Develop unit, component and integrated tests, with the guidance of team's QA
• Document and maintain software functionality
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing systems
• Deploy applications in a Continuous Integration platform
• Ensure software is updated with latest features / versions in a timely manner

We hope you have... 

• Passion for building a great consumer product that our customers will love
• At least 3 years of proven track record of working with Java (preferable, 8+) or similar OOP Languages
• Experience working with a high concurrency/high transactional/ highly available platform
• Experience of using established design patterns; 

We'd love to see... 

• Familiarity working with Client-server protocols such as SOAP, REST
• Experience working with Kafka and message queueing systems
• Knowledge of Scala, Akka, memcached, Apache Storm, Apache Cassandra, ZooKeeper
• Awareness and experience in using agile methodologies
• Ability to interact effectively with other functional teams
• Excellent communication skills, common sense and a passion for the art of problem solving