Job Description
47 years of backend engineering experience, with strong hands-on delivery in Java-based systems.
- Solid experience with Java, Spring Boot, and microservice-style backend development.
- Demonstrated ownership of at least one meaningful backend service or feature area in production.
- Strong understanding of backend engineering fundamentals, including service reliability, data consistency, failure handling, and production-grade design considerations.
- Strong database fundamentals, including schema design, query writing, indexing, and performance reasoning.
- Strong depth in MongoDB or a relational database such as Oracle, with working comfort across both styles being a plus.
- Ability to investigate and resolve real production issues across services and databases, including consistency, performance, and reliability problems.
- Hands-on experience with testing frameworks such as JUnit and Mockito.
- Proficiency with Git, including branching, code review workflows, and conflict resolution.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with engineers, stakeholders, and customers.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working on legacy modernization, data/service migrations, or decomposition of existing systems into cleaner service boundaries.
- Exposure to both MongoDB and relational databases, including query tuning, indexing, and production troubleshooting.
- Familiarity with Oracle PL/SQL or migration of logic from database-heavy systems into service-layer Java code.
- Exposure to CI/CD deployment and cloud environments like AWS, Azure, or GCP.
