Senior Software Engineer Backend

Progress Residential - Tempe, AZ

Full-time - Mid Level

Tempe, AZ

Real Estate

About the position

Progress Residential is the largest provider of high-quality, single-family rental homes in the United States, with over 90,000 homes across rapidly growing markets. We are committed to making the home rental process easy and enjoyable for our residents by empowering our team members and investing in innovative systems and technology. We are currently seeking a Sr Backend Developer who will be responsible for designing, building, and delivering highly performant, scalable services and customer experiences using backend technologies on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This role is part of a dynamic team dedicated to delivering applications for high-quality, on-time software releases leveraging best-of-breed agile and DevOps practices. The developer will work closely with architects and peer developers on the technical design of cloud and digital platforms, focusing on hands-on full stack development (80% backend, 20% frontend).

Responsibilities

• Hands-on development across a variety of technologies and platforms
• Build highly performant, scalable, cloud-native microservices-based applications using technologies like AWS Serverless, Kubernetes, Docker, Node.js, TypeScript, Key-Value Stores, and MongoDB
• Evaluate new technology for inclusion in our stack
• Develop proof-of-concept projects to validate new architectures and solutions
• Support the refactoring and re-architecting of existing software
• Work jointly with other developers to identify and create common reusable components
• Drive technical consolidation and reduction of duplicate effort across projects
• Participate in strategy discussions with management and business sponsors
• Work closely with architects, engineering manager, and other senior developers to understand the technology roadmap
• Support testing & deployment cycles, including coordinating user acceptance testing (UAT)
• Log, track, and manage issues, bugs, and enhancement/feature requests in JIRA
• Participate in software release and post-release activities
• Capture, mitigate and/or escalate risks & issues in a timely fashion
• Ensure development standards and consistency of specifications across sub-systems
• Write and/or review deliverables, solution blueprints, and architecture documentation

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent engineering field
• 6 - 8 years of solid development experience in building internet-scale web/mobile applications and public APIs
• Expertise in designing highly-scalable and performant micro-services and storage layers using NodeJS frameworks, TypeScript, AWS Serverless, MongoDB
• Experience in building Microservices & REST APIs with focus on System Design and Integration
• Good understanding of Public Cloud Services preferably AWS
• Good SQL and NoSQL skills
• Prior experience in React, React Native, GraphQL or Salesforce platform is preferred
• Experience with entire software development lifecycle (Agile, SDLC, Iterative)
• Hands-on experience with different CICD tools - Jenkins, Github/BitBucket, Dockers, Containers, Build and Deploy tools
• Strong communication skills (both verbal and written)
• Strong analytical, problem-solving skills and ability to abstract functional requirements
• Flexibility and positive attitude to achieve tight deadlines
• Ability to work creatively, propose ideas and contribute to working groups

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with React, React Native, GraphQL or Salesforce platform

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage for you and your family
• Parental leave
• Paid time off
• 401k match
• 10 paid holidays
• Performance-based bonus
• Outstanding training and quarterly summits and town hall meetings for growth and knowledge sharing