Senior Backend Developer

The Judge Group - Cincinnati, OH

Full-time - Senior

Cincinnati, OH

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

As a Senior Backend Developer, you will play a crucial role in designing, building, testing, and maintaining backend components for highly scalable eCommerce web and merchandising applications. This position offers the opportunity to have a direct and meaningful impact on the technology platform's roadmap, working with modern libraries and tools in a collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop backend eCommerce web and merchandising applications in cloud platform technologies
• Collaborate with designers and product managers to iterate on the design and implementation of the product
• Work with engineers from the full stack to build and ship features
• Identify and uphold engineering best practices
• Monitor performance, watch for traffic drops related to usability problems, and rectify the issues
• Review app and feature code, and plan future API upgrades with the development team

Requirements

• 10+ years' experience developing large scale web applications using Java, Apache Storm, Golang (or similar languages)
• Significant Java programming skills, data structures, and microservices architecture and development
• Significant experience with the Spring Framework (Persistence, REST, Messaging, Integrations) such as Spring Boot
• Significant knowledge of SQL Database and NoSQL Databases (MongoDB / Cassandra)
• Significant experience in messaging architectures & development - MQ Series or Kafka or equivalent
• Proven experience in building RESTful APIs and a deep understanding of REST principles
• Proven experience working with Docker or similar technologies, GIT, CI/CD and writing unit/integration tests
• Strong analytical problem-solving skills and excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Self-starter with strong initiative, quality deliverable and ability to work under pressure
• Business-minded approach to time, costs, and deadlines
• Demonstrated ability to work well within a team environment