Java Backend Developer

Role and Responsibilities:
The Java backend developer will design and develop high volume, low latency applications for mission-critical systems, delivering high availability. Supporting web-based application development and maintenance and contribute to and grow the software engineering competency.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
• End-to-end responsibility for projects of increasing complexity that encompass more than their own development
• Be independent with little oversight beyond high level direction, works on complex tasks and completes them despite roadblocks, including debugging techniques
• Help large groups of engineers deliver complex projects with drama-free launches, owning the technical testing and performance planning side of these projects
• Deliver software on-time and improve the accuracy of team's estimations
• Understand the business that their code supports, and possess empathy for the users of their software, using this understanding to influence their task prioritization
• Understand the tradeoffs between technical, analytical and product goals, and strive to create solutions that satisfy all the business goals
• Write consistently high-quality code, deliver features to QA that they believe are well-baked and bug-free, being aware of industry best practices and trends
• Be known outside of their core team as a technology leader, working effectively with non-tech members of their pillar. Ability to identify problems with requirements and help their team course-correct around these issues
• Research and propose new technologies, and have a broad understanding of the entire architecture, as well as very detailed understanding of their area
• Proactively identify and clean up technical debt before it turns into a long-term problem, and encourage and enable their team to do the same
• Identify risks in code, features, and design, and communicate these to the appropriate parties
• Participate in architecture designs providing feedback and providing designs with guidance from the architecture team, as appropriate
• Ability to identify and suggest areas of future work for themselves and others while contributing to the common standards for the team
• Balance leadership and individual contribution by providing extensive mentoring of junior team members while maintaining deep individual contribution
• Seek evidence to support their ideas and start to build cases for these ideas
• Support deployment releases as needed and maintain the application once it's in production

QUALIFICATIONS AND EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS:
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject