Sherwin-Williams - Cleveland, OH
posted about 2 months ago
The Senior Application Developer, Back End is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the server-side aspect of digital platforms, including event-driven services, web applications, and APIs. This role requires a disciplined and strategic individual capable of solving complex technical problems using strong coding and programming skills to ensure that back-end systems run smoothly and integrate effectively with other components of a digital platform. The incumbent must possess a deep understanding of back-end programming languages such as Java, Python, or Ruby, and must be proficient in writing quality, optimized, and maintainable code that meets project requirements. Strong communication skills are essential for collaborating effectively with other technical stakeholders, including Applications Development Engineering (Front-End), Database Administrators, Architects, and project teams to drive technical decisions and solutions. In this position, the developer will be expected to understand and optimize back-end architecture to enhance overall system performance. They will develop optimized code that is reliable, reusable, scalable, secure, and meets maintenance standards across various programming languages. Close collaboration with front-end developers is necessary to support system integrations, enhance application functionality and scalability, and optimize application architecture and performance. The developer will also work with technology leaders to understand the business and technical requirements and priorities for back-end systems, monitor performance and health of services, databases, and other components of back-end systems, and troubleshoot and debug complex application and database systems issues. Keeping up-to-date with the latest industry trends and emerging technologies in back-end application development is crucial, as is planning, designing, and executing unit tests or other quality assurance measures to ensure quality. Additionally, the developer will train digital platform users in best practices for maintaining web applications and APIs and document the design and implementation of application software.