Java Backend Engineering Manager

Quick Facts

• Role: Java Manager (Senior Backend Engineering leadership)

• Location: Menlo Park, CA (3 days onsite)

Description

As a senior backend engineer, you will lead modernization and product development initiatives for a middle-office core platform. You will design and program components/features, collaborate in technical design discussions, and deliver on product release goals in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Participate in technical discussions, technical designs, and whiteboarding; present technical ideas clearly

• Collaborate with peers in fast-paced design and development teams

• Deliver tasks quickly to meet product release goals

• Maintain code quality using best practices, unit testing, and code quality automation

• Understand the whole product and module interrelationships; be an expert in the assigned component/module

• Design interfaces and information exchange between modules

• Apply domain knowledge with strong customer focus; be expert in build, release, and deployment processes

• Advocate for scalability and improve quality through testing

• Write production-quality code that meets standards and delivers desired functionality using the selected technology

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or STEM

• Minimum 7 years relevant professional experience (or 5 years with a master’s, or 2 years with a PhD)

• Strong knowledge of Object-Oriented Analysis/Design and software design patterns

• Hands-on microservices architecture and development

• Database experience (Oracle, MySQL, Sybase, PostgreSQL, etc.)

• 7+ years Java (Spring Framework) and/or Go

• Experience building scalable, highly available distributed systems

• Ability to assess and optimize application performance via design and coding best practices

• Expertise in core data structures and algorithms; ability to implement them in a language of choice

• Expert in unit testing, code quality automation, and agile software development

Benefits

Not specified in the provided job posting.