Server Backend engineer

Server Backend engineer

  Not Disclosed

  Sunnyvale, CA

  12.0 Months

  Not Disclosed

  Not Disclosed

  Financial

  $95/hour - $100/hour

Job Description

Senior Backend Engineer :

Our Server Backend engineers work closely with Web Engineers, the Product Team, and QE to ensure seamless collaboration in the development process.
Our engineers are pragmatic in balancing priorities and thrive in an iterative model where server features are released once every two weeks.
As a Server Backend engineer, your responsibilities would include owning one or more of the payment services, adding new features, resolving bugs, and refactoring/improving the codebase.

What you will do:

Design and implement REST APIs for mobile and web clients including our payment devices, web dashboard, and 3rd party apps
Identify technical requirements in product meetings and assist the business team with realistic project planning and feature development; translate product requirements into functional, maintainable, extensible software that is in-line with company objectives
Own your merchant-facing services /features from development through deployment and production monitoring
Participate in design/code reviews.
Mentor junior engineers
Partner with the Infrastructure Team to design data models to support large-scale highly available services
Work with QA to develop test plans/strategies
Participate in a regular on call rotation

What you will need:

Degree in Computer Science or Engineering field
8+ years of industry experience
Strong coding skills; Java is our language of choice
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes, Apache Kafka and Google Pub/Sub
Experience with microservices, preferably Spring Boot
Strong knowledge of relational databases, MySQL
Experience with Cloud Technologies
Experience with API design
Superior problem-solving skills and debugging capabilities

What would be great to have:

Payments domain experience
Ability to clearly articulate API design and technical requirements with thoughtful documentation gathering requirements, exploring alternative solutions, and implementing code along the way.
Experience with scalability and high availability; monitoring with Grafana, Datadog etc
Security concepts
Dependency Injection Frameworks.
Experience with a cloud platform, preferably Google Cloud
Degree in Computer Science or equivalent Engineering field

Skills :

Atleast 8 years of experience.
Implementing Rest APIs for mobile clients.
Will be working independently.
Computer Science Degree.
Hands on coding is crucial.
Experience with Cloud Technologies.
Use Kubernetes platforms to deploy technologies.
Ability to understand “scale” monitoring with Grafana, Datadog etc.
Payment experience would be a great plus.

Note :

Sunnyvale, CA (preferred) or Berk Heights, NJ .
On call rotation – 7 days on call every 15-20 weeks so in a year about 3 or 4 on call weeks.
Contract to Hire.
Onsite.
VIVA is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants have an equal opportunity for placement, and all employees have an equal opportunity to develop on the job. This means that VIVA will not discriminate against any employee or qualified applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.