Senior Backend Engineer – Java
| Company | BuildOps |
|---|---|
| Location | Toronto, ON, Canada |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s, PhD |
| Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- Equivalent of 5+ years of experience in Senior engineering roles (designing modules and APIs, building services in distributed or monorepo architectures)
- Experience writing and debugging high-volume and high-scalability components and services
- Experience and thorough understanding of distributed async platforms such as queues (SQS, RabbitMQ or similar) and streaming platforms (Kafka)
- Strong understanding of modern databases (MySQL, Postgres) with experience in using ORMs and designing, tuning complex queries
- Strong knowledge and practice of Java code that is clean, well-tested, and reusable
- Strong focus on automated testing using JUnit, TestNG or similar frameworks. Experience writing unit and integration tests
- Strong experience with Springboot (or similar) services run on the AWS platform for scalable REST and GraphQL APIs
- Strong communication and technical writing skills
- As a senior individual contributor, we expect you to be a role model to more junior engineers
- B.S., M.S. or PhD in computer science, engineering or related fields
- Ability to work a hybrid schedule – Monday/Friday WFH, Tuesday – Thursday, in office
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain our backend platform with real-time, event-driven systems, services, and features utilizing latest methodologies for scalable and testable software
- Write high-quality maintainable code with high automated test coverage and documentation
- Develop, support, and improve our REST and GraphQL services
- Propose recommendations, build prototypes, and provide feedback
- Promote, teach, and enforce our coding and documentation standards
- Work in tandem with the QA, Data and DevOps engineering teams to ship high-quality and high-precision software
- Co-own and drive the short and long-term technical vision of your squad with your teammates
- Provide technical mentorship and guidance to engineers within your team and others
- Help improve the technical quality of our work through regular technical design, code reviews and automated testing
- Share your technical knowledge and expertise; participate in showcasing new features and best practices to fellow engineers
- Communicate effectively with engineers, product managers, customers, partners, and other leaders
Preferred Qualifications
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No preferred qualifications provided.