Backend Software Engineer x5

Insight Global

$130K — $160K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7-10 years of experience in software engineering and architecture
  • Primarily focused on coding (60-70% of time), with design and architecture comprising 20-30%
  • Proven ability to own designs and ensure scalability for high-demand systems
  • Comfortable deploying designs to production environments
  • Familiarity with technologies such as Java, SpringBoot, Kafka, and CosmosDB

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical expertise and thought leadership to enhance engineering practices
  • Lead medium to large-scale projects from requirements to unit testing
  • Develop highly scalable services handling millions of requests
  • Design and develop backend microservices and APIs using JVM ecosystems and other programming languages
  • Collaborate with project and cross-functional teams to troubleshoot issues and ensure timely project delivery
  • Engage in root cause analysis to resolve business and production problems
  • Support business stakeholders by addressing technical queries and facilitating cross-functional resolutions

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Account (FSA), and Dependent Care FSA (DCFSA) options
  • 401k retirement plan with employer matching
  • Paid sick leave and other paid time off per applicable laws
Full Job Description
What you'll do:
• Provide deep technical expertise and thought leadership that helps accelerate adoption of the absolute best engineering practices, while maintaining knowledge on industry innovations, trends, and practices.
• Lead and participate in medium to large-scale projects by reviewing project requirements, translating requirements into technical solutions, gathering
requested information, writing, and developing code, and conducting unit testing. Communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders.
• Developing highly scalable services to process millions of requests per day and solve complex software systems problems by leveraging state-of-the-art technology.
• Gaining exposure to various technologies used in Marketplace and E-commerce platforms.
• Designing and developing backend microservices and APIs for web applications using JVM ecosystem (Kotlin, Java) and other languages and frameworks (Python, Go)
• Collaborate with project teams and cross functional teams. Troubleshoot open issues and bug-fixes, ensuring on-time delivery and hand-offs. Interact with project manager to provide e input on project plan.
• Troubleshoot business and production issues by gathering information (for example, issue, impact, criticality, root cause), engaging support teams to assist in the resolution of issues. Formulate action plans, performing actions as designated in the plan. Interpret the results to determine further action, perform root cause analysis to prevent future occurrence of issues and complete online documentation.
• Provide support to the business by responding to u ' questions, concerns, and issues (for example, technical feasibility, implementation strategies). Facilitate resolutions and lead cross-functional partnerships.
• Driving projects of high visibility across the organization.

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment regardless of their race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected] learn more about how we collect, keep, and process your private information, please review Insight Global's Workforce Privacy Policy: https://insightglobal.com/workforce-privacy-policy/.

Required Skills & Experience
- 7-10 years experience
- 60-70% coding, 20-30% design/architecture
- Owns design, ensures scalability (Walmart-scale)
- Confident in pushing designs to production
- Technologies: Java, SpringBoot, Kafka, CosmosDB
- Tests own code
- Participates in cross-team contract discussions

Nice to Have Skills & Experience
• At least 7 years of experience in architecting large scale systems with challenges of scalability and delivering sub-second latencies on 99.99% uptime.
• Expertise in one or more programming languages (e.g. Java, Python, etc.)
• Strong background in algorithms and data structures.
• Experience in leading teams and delivering large scale distributed systems and event-driven architecture.
• Proven understanding of microservices oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs
• Experience with cloud application development including scalable, data driven,
Cloud Cost-optimization and message-oriented architecture.
• Understanding of SaaS or PaaS or IaaS industry with hands on experience with public or private cloud offerings (e.g., AWS, GAE, Azure)
• Experience using any of the automation toolset like Appium, Selenium, Jira,
Rest Assured, AssetJ, Gatling, etc. or equivalent tools is a plus.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and best practices. Automated deployment
experience is a plus.
• Advanced knowledge of performance, scalability, and system architecture with an eye toward avoiding and reducing technical debt.
• Practical knowledge of agile software development methodologies (e.g., XP,
Scrum)
• Experience and fluency with relational / non-relational databases (e.g. MySQL,
Oracle, Cassandra, etc.)
• Strong inclination towards exploring and learning new technologies.
• Understanding machine learning preferred.
• Previous experience in the marketplace domain

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.

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