Software development engineer 3

Responsibilities: 

• Develop backend systems for our first product
• Build reliable, secure and performant backend systems
• Drive test coverage and continuous delivery automation within the team
• Mentor and provide feedback to teammates

Requirements:

• 5+ years of software development experience
• Strong computer science fundamentals
• Deep and wide knowledge of Java ecosystem
• Can write code that is readable, maintainable, secure and performant
• Know the importance of tests and how to approach writing different types of tests
• Good intuition for REST API design
• Deep understanding of relational databases, transactions, entity-relationship modeling
• Comfortable writing highly concurrent systems
• Experienced in using profilers, tuning garbage collection, optimizing SQL queries

Bonus:

• Understanding of domain-driven design concepts like ubiquitous language, bounded contexts, aggregates and domain events
• Know how to use test driven development as a design tool
• Good intuition for the principles underlying object-orientation, particularly encapsulation
• Understand the importance of immutability and of reducing the state-space of objects
• Know how to refactor large codebases safely
• Seek to identify key underlying ideas and use those as building blocks before reaching for shiny new tools