Senior Backend Engineer Job in United Kingdom Recruiting by Demand Science

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As a Backend Engineer, you will be working on one or more of our new product initiatives. You will be responsible for building and maintaining scalable services that power our products and increase data quality measures. We are heavy on data. A lot of stuff will involve data manipulation and transmission on a big scale.

Employee must be able to come to the office once or twice a week.

Essential Job Functions “What You’ll Do” :

The following duties are listed in order of greater importance. Other responsibilities may be assigned.

• Build services and products that consistently deliver high-volume, low-latency high-availability, performance, reliability, security on the implementations.
• Identify the critical details and prioritize incremental delivery.
• Contribute to the design, implementation, and testing of new features.
• Actively participate and contribute in the requirements refinement discussion
• Review technical specifications and architecture diagrams created by the Architect/Principal
• Assist with change management, capacity planning and emergency response as an expert of the runtime environment and business logic behaviour.
• Coach / Mentor junior developers understand the architecture and technical specifications.
• Pair-program on complex items minimizing risk and enhancing exchange of skills.
• Write code based on coding best practices and standards set by the company and known in industry.
• Maintain good, automated testing coverage.
• Produce unit test as part of the development cycle to improve code quality.
• Perform peer code reviews, including group open reviews.
• Help develop & maintain your team CI/CD needs.
• Participate and own were necessary deployment, monitoring of team’s product & alerting requirements and implementation.
• Participate in product support and bug fixing.
• Participate and actively contribute on all agile ceremonies, such as sprint refinement, planning, retrospective, …, including daily stand-ups.
• Share and implement ideas to help our teams move quickly.
• Write code documentation (API documentation, data dictionary, etc.).
• Translate non-technical and technical requirements to appropriate audiences.
• Recommend enhancements and propose innovative ideas and solutions.
• Design and build domain-driven APIs, for both internal and external usage.
• Design and build components in C#, Golang, and Java working closely with our backend platforms.

Essential Qualifications “What You’ll Need”: 

• 5+ years of experience in building and designing enterprise, scalable, service-oriented cloud applications.
• Experience in developing REST microservices.
• B2B SaaS enterprise applications with a large user base.
• Experience with mobile and / or desktop application development.
• Preferred Automation testing generating Unit, BDD (Behaviour driven development) and / or TDD (Test-driven development).
• Proficiency in Golang, Snowflake PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS.
• Seasoned in commercial Java development experience.
• Expert in Core Java (JVM, collections, generics, functional programming…), Spring Framework and associated projects (Boot, Core, Data…)
• Well-versed in micro-service backend architecture.

This is a hybrid role where you’ll work both from home and from the local office, the specific days of the week in the office will be determined by your manager.

Eventual compensation offered will be based on factors such as the candidate’s qualifications, skills, experience and/ or training. Your recruiter can share more information about the specific salary range during the interview process.

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