Job Summary:
Job Description: Senior Backend Engineer
Location: Remote, United Kingdom
Division: TM1 Marketing

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW (OR TECHNICAL SKILLS/COMPETENCIES)

• Bachelors in computer science or equivalent degree
• Proven years of development experience
• Proven years of experience w/ Agile methodologies

Software

• Proven years of Java development experience and Spring Boot (At least Java 11 ideally with experience of latest LTS version)
• Engineering excellence in relation to backend coding including related tooling for Java (SCA, SonarQube, SpotBugs, PMD etc)
• TDD / BDD and capabilities including creating strategies for testing/verification of big data
• Automated test frameworks including mocked services, environments and deterministic datasets
• Experience testing backends that form part of a large heterogenous systems architecture
• Real production support experience and troubleshooting
• Experience implementing with good security practices (especially around handling PII data) and a secure-by-design mindset

Solution Architecture

• Architecting back-end solutions that operate at scale and account for latency
• Strong understanding of APIs, microservices, and RESTful architecture.
• Proposing pragmatic solutions that minimise/reduce tech debt

Database

• Adept at designing sensible database schemas
• Knowledge of data warehousing solutions
• Experience with SQL and common RDBMS
• Experience with NoSQL is an asset
• Experience with Apache Spark and Databricks is an asset
• Big-Data verification and QA strategies are an asset

Cloud

• Familiarity with AWS or other standard cloud platforms
• Familiarity with OpenSearch & EMR is an asset

DevOps

• Familiarity with Kubernetes, docker
• Observability / monitoring / tracing and experience on production support
• Infrastructure as code / AWS (terraform)

YOU (BEHAVIOURAL SKILLS/COMPETENCIES)

• Autonomous, responsible and proactive
• Passionate about technology and transformation
• Self-motivated activator, energetic and tenacious
• Comfortable with working in cross functional and multidisciplinary teams
• Excited about taking on challenging technical problems and devising creative solutions
• Consistent track record of going the extra mile for the success of the team
• Able to communicate effectively
• Organized and effective in time management
• Effectively manage workload
• Resilient and reliable
• Strong analytical abilities

• Analyse and implement development stories to execute the product roadmap
• Implement robust scalable architecture
• Maintain and modernise legacy code and services
• Evaluate existing applications and services to determine technical changes and architecture improvements
• Automate testing, deployments, performance and recovery
• Ensure high quality through automated tests
• Develop on AWS cloud and Kubernetes
• Interact with Product Owner and UX teams
• Help stakeholders translate ideas into technical solutions
• Inspire other developers by proposing innovative solutions
• Help optimising your development time by choosing the right priorities
• Foster stable relationships with team members
• Develop on a Java / React stack
• Mentor other engineers on your team