Senior Backend Developer

Job Description

As a Senior Backend Developer, 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.  

Our Senior Developers are trusted to guide a team of their own from a technical point of view. As experts in their area, they're the go-to people for big ideas and problem-solving. 

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, optimize and coach on the software development life cycle
• Design and develop technical solutions or processes
• Create and confirm high-quality requirements with stakeholders
• Suggest alternative methodologies that may be more efficient and actively improve the tooling to improve use cases
• Tackle tasks by researching and weighing up the pros and cons of various routes to select the right approach
• Be an expert in your primary programming language, and be competent in others
• Be an expert in your domain (business and tech) who can guide your team on the best approach for large pieces of work which span multiple components and teams
• Be able to leverage the above expertise to support other teams in your function so that we deliver the best product to our customers

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