When you join Accurate Background, you're an integral part of making every hire the start of a success story. Your contributions will help us fulfill our mission of advancing the background screening experience through visibility and insights, empowering our clients to make smarter, unbiased decisions.
Job Description
The Software Engineer II plays a hands-on role across the full software development lifecycle, contributing to the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of scalable applications. This role partners closely with infrastructure, security, data, and platform teams to deliver high-quality, customer-centric solutions. The engineer will help build and evolve a world-class background check platform that supports rapid company growth and changing business needs.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable, service-oriented and REST-based applications end to end.
- Write clean, reusable, well-documented, and testable code following best practices.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, infrastructure, security, and data teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
- Validate and refine functional and technical requirements.
- Implement integration, unit, and functional tests to ensure software quality and reliability.
- Support CI/CD pipelines, builds, and deployments across multiple environments.
- Troubleshoot and resolve application issues in development, test, and production environments.
- Participate in code reviews and contribute to continuous improvement of engineering standards and practices.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
- 3–6+ years of hands-on software development experience with a strong focus on Java-based full stack applications.
- Strong proficiency in:
- Java (including internationalization concepts)
- Spring Boot and RESTful service development
- J2EE technologies (JSP/Servlets, EJB, JMS, JDBC, JMX)
- JAX-RS, JSON, XML/XSL
- Experience with application servers and databases:
- Tomcat, JBoss
- SQL Server, MongoDB (or other relational and NoSQL databases)
- Solid front-end development experience with:
- HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, TypeScript
- Angular or React (SPA frameworks)
- Node.js
- Experience with CI/CD and build tools such as Jenkins or AWS Code Build.
- Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies and modern software release practices.
The Accurate Way
We offer a fun, fast-paced environment, with lots of room for growth. We have an unwavering commitment to diversity, ensuring everyone has a complete sense of belonging here. To do this, we follow four guiding principles – Take Ownership, Be Open, Stay Curious, Work as One – core values that dictate what we stand for, and how we behave.
Take ownership.
Be accountable for your actions, your team, and the company. Accept responsibility willingly, especially when it's what's best for our customers. Give others every reason to trust you, believe in you, and count on you. Rise to every occasion with your personal best.
Be open.
Be open to new ideas. Be inclusive of people and ways of doing things. Make yourself accessible and approachable, and communicate with genuineness, transparency, honesty, and respect. Embrace differences.
Stay curious.
Stay curious even as you move forward. Tirelessly ask questions and challenge the status quo in your pursuit of new ideas, ways to solve problems, and to continually grow and improve.
Work as one.
Work together to create the best customer and workplace experience. Put our customers and employees first—before individual or departmental agendas. Make sure they get the help they need to succeed.
Equal opportunities
Accurate is an equal-opportunity employer and is committed to hiring talented and qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Accurate will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws.
You must have a right to work in Australia indefinitely that does not involve sponsorship by the Company.
Special Notice
Accurate is aware of schemes involving fraudulent job postings/offers and/or individuals or entities claiming to be employees of Accurate. Those involved are offering fabricated employment opportunities to applicants, often asking for sensitive personal and financial information. If you believe you have been contacted by anyone misrepresenting themselves as an employee of Accurate, please contact [Confidential Information].
- Please be advised that all legitimate correspondence from an Accurate employee will come from @accurate.com email accounts.
- Accurate will not interview candidates via text or email. Our interviews are conducted by recruiters and leaders via the phone, Zoom/Teams or in an in-person format.
- Accurate will never ask candidates to make any type of personal financial investment related to gaining employment with the Company.
