Software Developer II - Backend

Volkswagen - Reston, VA

Full-time

Reston, VA

Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers

About the position

The Backend Developer II at Electrify America will play a crucial role in developing and maintaining the back-end systems that support the company's electric vehicle charging network. This position focuses on creating high-quality, secure, and efficient software solutions, managing APIs, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance user experience and meet business goals. The role requires a strong background in backend development, problem-solving skills, and a commitment to continuous learning and innovation.

Responsibilities

• Develop and refactor high-quality reliable, secure, and performing code
• Develop unit tests covering the entirety of the code base
• Perform regular code reviews, identify improvements for readability, maintainability, security, performance and other aspects of code quality
• Regularly participate in Agile rituals and assist in work sizing/estimation
• Participate in the secure development lifecycle leveraging best development practices
• Continuously evaluate current code base to identify risks and technical debt, implement improvements
• Optimize Solutions for scalability, speed and resiliency
• Create, test, enhance and manage APIs that work across devices, including with external partners
• Meet regularly and work closely with internal and external developers (including front-end and UI/UX), project managers and Technology team members to develop modern innovative software solutions to address user needs and business goals with prioritizing overall quality and security
• Support functional, performance, scalability, cybersecurity and other testing
• Configure backend usability of frontend applications
• Review and analyze and triage bugs/issues and create long-term solutions tackling into account module dependencies and operating constraints
• Work alongside the DevOps team to use and evolve the CI/CD pipeline
• Help build, maintain and improve upon a system architecture that supports frequent enhancements and updates
• Continuously learn to stay ahead of the technology trends and innovate relentlessly
• Develop and document technical designs and specifications associated with the software modules
• Write and maintain technical documentation in Confluence or other tools
• Attend and/or lead technical meetings with other Developers and Vendors
• Mentor junior developers and promote robust architecture and best development practices

Requirements

• 5+ years of software development experience
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or related field
• 2+ years of experience technical gathering requirements, designing and developing software solutions
• 5+ years of hands on experience as a backend software developer
• Experience in all phases of Software development life cycle (SDLC)
• Strong proven experience and success record developing distributed and cloud-native SOA back end applications
• Experience developing and managing APIs
• Proficiency in backend coding/development using Java and working knowledge of Python, Javascript
• Proficiency using no-sql databases such as MongoDB; experience using Postgres
• Knowledge of backend frameworks, such as Spring Boot, Redis, and similar
• Basic understanding of at least one front-end tech such as Java/JavaScript, HTML, CSS, to support efficiency and alignment with front-end developers
• Knowledge of software design patterns and proven experience implementing software patterns in the application code
• Strong experience debugging the code, using tracing, logging and profiling
• Experience writing unit tests as part of an automated test harness
• Working knowledge of cryptography, secure communications, secure software development practices
• Knowledge of good coding practices and experience performing code reviews
• Familiarity with Linux command line environment

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with developing high-availability software
• Experience developing highly scalable applications
• Experience with PKI, TLS, X.509 certificates