Software development engineer 3

Responsibilities:

Develop backend systems for our first product

Build reliable, secure and performant backend systems

Drive test coverage and continuous delivery automation within the team

Mentor and provide feedback to teammates

Requirements:

5+ years of software development experience

Strong computer science fundamentals

Deep and wide knowledge of Java ecosystem

Can write code that is readable, maintainable, secure and performant

Know the importance of tests and how to approach writing different types of tests

Good intuition for REST API design

Deep understanding of relational databases, transactions, entity-relationship modeling

Comfortable writing highly concurrent systems

Experienced in using profilers, tuning garbage collection, optimizing SQL queries

Bonus:

Understanding of domain-driven design concepts like ubiquitous language, bounded contexts, aggregates and domain events

Know how to use test driven development as a design tool

Good intuition for the principles underlying object-orientation, particularly encapsulation

Understand the importance of immutability and of reducing the state-space of objects

Know how to refactor large codebases safely

Seek to identify key underlying ideas and use those as building blocks before reaching for shiny new tools