Software Engineer 2

Pay Rate: $60 - $67/Hour

Overview:

As a software engineer 2, you will be pivotal in the Payments and Gift Card team, responsible for designing, developing, and testing end-to-end features while engaging with our partner teams to bring the best-of-class experiences to customers. Our teams design, develop, and maintain systems that support both purchase and post-purchase experiences, taking payments from customers and managing cancellations and refunds, etc.; we leverage technologies such as Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, AWS Fargate, Apache Kafka, and other AWS services and databases. We prioritize automation and continuous integration and development to expedite the delivery of high-quality results.

A day in the life…

• Participate and contribute to the agile development and planning process.
• Write highly maintainable, easy-to-understand code for RESTful Services, event-driven systems, databases, and cloud infrastructure following secure coding practices.
• Demonstrate a foundational understanding of standards, concepts, and principles of engineering to solve the practical needs of the business.
• Design interactions between multiple modules and understand business metrics for the team.
• Validate all scenarios and conform to code quality through the complete and automated unit, functional, integration, and end-end testing.
• Identify performance issues and optimize solutions and infrastructure.
• Instrument code appropriately, creating custom metrics, alerts, and dashboards.
• Ensure adherence to Engineering best practices across the entire solution.
• Collaborate with other software engineers on design and best practices and conduct code reviews.

You own this if you have…

• Bachelor's or master's degree in CS, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• 3+ years of professional experience in developing REST-ful services and
• 3+ Event-driven applications
• Solid foundation in software engineering practices, data modeling, object-oriented analysis and design, design patterns, and algorithms.
• Proficiency in coding in JAVA or other object-oriented programming languages and familiarity with back-end frameworks and workflows such as Spring Boot, AWS, distribution systems, and event-driven design.
• Familiarity with AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, New Relic, Splunk Familiarity with test automation and CI/CD pipeline Familiarity with Relational databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL.
• Familiarity with non-relational databases such as DynamoDB, MongoDB Curiosity and desire to learn newer and emerging technologies.