Senior Backend engineer

Job Description

When you join Verizon

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the V Team Life.

What you will be doing:

• Understand existing ecosystem, Implement features, functions, and enhancements
• Designing, developing and maintaining software system by evaluating and analyzing the product requirements.
• Translating designs into high quality code, writing unit tests and release to production
• Follow and improve process, including the code review
• Ensuring application development sprint cycle is on track and adjusting the plan to meet release timelines and adapting to an agile environment
• Acting independently and displaying the excellent collaboration within and between various teams
• Understanding the underlying domain and build domain knowledge.
• Building the reusable code and libraries for future use.

What we are looking for…

The Candidate should be a strong team Player, should be able to execute tasks in a team that develops high quality software under aggressive release schedules.

You will need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Experience in developing software products.
• Good knowledge of data structures and Algorithms.
• Hands-on experience in Core Java, J2EE technologies
• Experience with Spring and Spring ecosystem (Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring Security)
• Experience with Java web services, SOAP and REST API.
• Demonstrate good analysis and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with distributed systems and their application for building scalable, supportable systems
• Experience in Designing and developing APIs.
• Good networking knowledge and good understanding of TCP/IP, HTTP protocols.
• Experience in one or more NOSQL databases such as Couchbase/Redis/MongoDB.
• Experience in one or more relational databases such as MySQL/Postgres/Oracle .
• Knowledge of Unix/Linux.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Knowledge/Exposure/Expertise in AWS Services, Kubernetes considered a plus.
• Knowledge/Exposure/Expertise in micro services, containerization considered a plus.
• Good understanding of Software Development Life Cycle and Test Methodologies.
• Good listening, negotiation and presentation skills.

Where you’ll be working

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Diversity and Inclusion

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. At Verizon, we know that diversity makes us stronger. We are committed to a collaborative, inclusive environment that encourages authenticity and fosters a sense of belonging. We strive for everyone to feel valued, connected, and empowered to reach their potential and contribute their best. Check out our diversity and inclusion page to learn more.