Title: Senior Software Engineer Backend
Location: Sunnyvale, CA - Hybrid
Duration: 3-months, team extends quarterly
Please note! There are interim nights worked, once a week.
Our client is seeking a talented and passionate Staff, Software Engineer - Backend to join their team. The ideal candidate will have experience working in a large project environment with solid technical leadership abilities and strong development background in Java along with experience Cloud Implementation architecture and a proven track record of delivering high-quality scalable software applications.
Required Skills & Experience
- 7-10 years experience
- 60–70% coding, 20–30% design/architecture
- Technologies: Java, SpringBoot, Kafka, CosmosDB, Bigquery, and Kubernetes
- Owns design, ensures scalability
- Confident in pushing designs to production
- Tests own code
- Participates in cross-team contract discussions
Job Description
- Provide deep technical expertise and thought leadership that helps accelerate adoption of the absolute best engineering practices, while maintaining knowledge on industry innovations, trends, and practices.
- Lead and participate in medium to large-scale projects by reviewing project requirements, translating requirements into technical solutions, gathering requested information, writing, and developing code, and conducting unit testing. Communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders.
- Developing highly scalable services to process millions of requests per day and solve complex software systems problems by leveraging state-of-the-art technology.
- Gaining exposure to various technologies used in Marketplace and E-commerce platforms.
- Designing and developing backend microservices and APIs for web applications using JVM ecosystem (Kotlin, Java) and other languages and frameworks (Python, Go)
- Collaborate with project teams and cross functional teams. Troubleshoot open issues and bug-fixes, ensuring on-time delivery and hand-offs. Interact with project manager to provide e input on project plan.
- Troubleshoot business and production issues by gathering information (for example, issue, impact, criticality, root cause), engaging support teams to assist in the resolution of issues. Formulate action plans, performing actions as designated in the plan. Interpret the results to determine further action, perform root cause analysis to prevent future occurrence of issues and complete online documentation.
- Provide support to the business by responding to users' questions, concerns, and issues (for example, technical feasibility, implementation strategies). Facilitate resolutions and lead cross-functional partnerships.
- Driving projects of high visibility across the organization.
Compensation: $50-$60/hour, depending on experience
Exact compensation may vary based on several factors, including skills, experience, and education. Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.
