Senior Staff Software Engineer- Backend(Java), Commerce

Roles & Responsibilities

• Has a track record of having built multiple high-performance, stable, scalable systems that have been successfully shipped to customers in production.
• Drives best practices and sets standards for the team.
• Is a key influencer in the teams strategy and contributes significantly to the team planning.
• Shows good judgment making trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs.
• Is a result-driven creative thinker who drives innovation and produces delightful experiences for our customers.
• Is an advocate for data-driven decision-making, has an insatiable curiosity, and loves to invent and innovate to solve difficult problems.
• Has a strong point of view but remains open-minded.
• Takes ownership of their work and consistently delivers results in a fast-paced environment.
• You are a collaborative leader that makes other engineers and team members around you more productive, by sharing your knowledge and helping to tie-break key technical decisions.
• You play a leading role in designing and developing major functional changes to existing software systems, or new ones, involving yourself and other engineers.
• You are a key influencer in your teams strategy and contribute significantly to team planning.
• You show good judgement making trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs.
• You troubleshoot a production issue by reviewing source code, logs, operational metrics, stack trace, etc. to pinpoint a specific problem and then resolve it. You identify root causes and identify learnings to improve both development processes and system design.
• Provide guidance on design, coding, and operational best practices.
• You propose and create best practices proactively where none exist.
• You make high-impact decisions driving how and what software gets built.
• You mentor junior engineers, overseeing their designs, code quality, and integration into a team.
• Your success is judged as much on your own productivity as on the positive impact you have on the engineers around you.

What to Bring

• Proficient in Java or other JVM languages.
• 13-16 Years of total experience and should have experience in Java and a few other languages.
• Experience and deep understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS.
• Great understanding of distributed systems challenges, micro-service-based architectures, and asynchronized communication (e.g. using gRPC
• and Kafka).
• Ability to implement alerting, metrics, and logging using tools like Prometheus, CloudWatch, Kibana, PagerDuty.
• Practical knowledge of persistence and caching solutions such as PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, Caffeine.
• Familiar with asynchronous, non-blocking, functional/reactive styles of programming. Hands-on experience with frameworks such as Spring WebFlux, Vert.x, Node.js.