Back-End Software Engineer - YO HR CONSULTANCY

Back-End Software Engineer

Location

: Miami, Florida, USA

Experience

: 5 - 10 Years

Must-Have:

At least one year of experience in any JVM based languages (such as Java, Kotlin, Scala).

Experience building and shipping highly-available, fault-tolerant, production-ready distributed backend systems.

Strong understanding of data structures, databases, and large-scale distributed systems.

JD:

Become a key member of a dedicated engineering team committed to rapidly shipping, and iterating on products that directly impact millions of users

Advocate best practices, code quality, test coverage and drive technical discussions

Build scalable services with Kotlin, and deal with problems like synchronization, asynchronous operations, database optimizations, scalability, and reliability of systems

Gain exposure to an array of technologies such as Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, etc.

Optimize existing systems for scalability, extensibility and performance whilst building out reusable, modular code for use across products

Ensure security is at the forefront of everything you do, employing advanced encryption schemes to secure user and company data

Work within interdisciplinary teams to continually deliver the highest quality software to our users

QUALIFICATIONS:

You know at least one programming language in depth

You have at least one year of experience in any JVM based languages (such as Java, Kotlin, Scala) and are confident in your ability to build, debug and ship microservices

You have experience building and shipping highly-available, fault tolerant, production ready distributed backend systems

You actively participate in creating product and software specifications before implementing them

You maintain high levels of test coverage, strong technical documentation and effective monitoring

Understanding of data structures, databases and large-scale distributed systems

Preferably exposure to technologies such as Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ

You are customer focused and continuously suggest how the backend can provide the best Customer Experience

We use Kotlin, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, Datadog, Amplitude, Grafana, BigQuery, ApacheSpark and more