Senior Backend Developer

Remote-first

Fully flexible hours

Dog friendly

Employment type

Full time

Industry

Technology

We hope you have... 

• Passion for building a great consumer product that our customers will love
• At least 5 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
• Ability to understand the dependencies between components and how they combine to deliver service to the consumer and business
• Ability to easily recognize system deficiencies and implement effective solutions 
• Expertise using established design patterns
• Drive to encourage appropriate use of reusability techniques (e.g. design patterns, library extraction, new component creation)
• Ability to support and mentor other colleagues

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 communicator, common sense and a passion for the art of problem solving