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    Backend Engineer - Seattle, United States - Tekwissen

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    Title:
    Backend Engineer - POS (Point of sales) - API + Microservices

    Work Location:
    Seattle, WA 98101

    Duration: 8 Months


    Pay:
    $50-50/hr


    Job Type:
    Contract


    Work Type:
    Onsite


    Job Description:

    Duties:
    Store POS+ services exist with the mission to power the selling experience of our Salespeople within Client stores.

    This team builds and maintains the backend services used by salespeople on sales floor that span a full stack across a distributed system and network of devices within our 350+ Client stores.

    This role will serve as growth vehicle to leverage engineers existing experience to develop back-end services to build the future of our modern Point-of-Sale system at scale.

    We are looking for Senior Engineer who is skilled expert in the backend API development, with openness to individuals who are purely engineering focused or want to grow into a full-stack engineer or leverage previous full-stack experience.

    They will get the opportunity to be one of the development leads on the large-scale development of microservices that will power the adventure of our customers and Salespeople within our four walls.

    The scope, responsibility, and accountability are at the level of outlining work beyond the scope of a single unit.

    This level will support splitting larger designs into work units and can undertake and mentor other engineers across a broad spectrum of activities as needed.

    Regular Sr. Engineer Day in our team,
    Develop REST based API & Services that power our Salesperson to customer selling in stores.

    Assist in mentoring a team of skilled engineers while you get direct mentorship and support to grow your career to the next level.

    Design and Prototype. We love individuals who like to make things real.
    In writing the code, we often realize the more significant implications.
    Seniors typically set the path and standards for the team.
    Think in terms of telemetry and operations.

    Senior Engineers are thinking about more than just the code they are writing today but also whether that will be maintainable, testable, or supportable.

    And we build our applications to be easily monitored to catch potential issues before they impact our customers.
    On-call support - We care about our customers, so we build and support.
    We also care about you and ensure we have scheduled on-call rotation in our team. We are all human and need rest.

    Take a business problem and come up with the technical strategy (push vs pull etc real time vs batches sync vs async) within the team high level design and lead the implementation.

    Need minimal directions or guidance and collaborate with other engineers across teams working on the same or similar business problem.

    Ensure design or architectural deficiencies are addressed.
    Consistently lead delivery of valuable features
    Help elaborate requirements where necessary.

    Skills:

    Required Technical Skills:


    Java 8+, Spring Boot, Spring, Docker, Kubernetes, GIT, API Gateway technologies, load balancer configurations, AWS services, CI/CD tools, API best practices, API security, microservice patterns etc.

    Experience of Kafka, SQL and NOSQL will be preferred.

    Education:
    As a Senior Engineer, should be able to demonstrate the skills-Technology Understanding & Programming (Must be very Strong)
    Demonstrate in depth knowledge of IDE language and toolset in language of choice.
    Implement critical path components in a large or complex or project.
    Demonstrate excellent understanding of language & framework and a good working knowledge of the abstraction layer underneath,
    Profile and optimize code.
    Understand threads threading model and concurrent programming.
    Comfortably test drive any feature/comfortable with TDD cycle.
    Demonstrate a good knowledge of other programming languages & paradigms and when to apply them.
    Comfortably debug/find complex problems.
    Should have a wide range of technical exposure.
    Understand advanced HTTP features (Caching appropriate use of verbs).
    Deep understanding of distributed architecture scaling replication and sharding concepts and their applicability to the product being developed.
    Design (Must be very Strong)
    Identify and apply appropriate design patterns to problems.
    Comfortably develop large features
    Demonstrate a good understanding of cohesion SOLID and how to apply.
    Understand importance of domain model and can coherently model a problem domain within a given context.
    Anticipate medium term (3-6 month) vectors of change and designs and abstracts accordingly.
    Understand and appreciate simplicity and the value of removing code.
    Understand design patterns such as CQRS and eventual consistency.
    Understand how to design for performance at all levels.
    Development Practice
    Automate everything by default.
    Build a CI/CD pipeline.
    Automate security scanning and performance testing as part of build.
    Infrastructure
    Demonstrate a good grasp of multiple operating systems.
    Demonstrate a good grasp of scripting techniques.
    Demonstrate expertise in one database & good grasp of multiple data storage paradigms and when to apply other technologies.
    Understand and can automate PaaS technologies.
    Understand when to apply appropriate infrastructure technologies.
    Security
    Write secure code by default.
    Use tools to perform deep security probes.
    Understand server hardening.
    Behaviors & Collaboration
    Lead group discussions on design of areas Comfortably present information.
    Gain buy in from team and drive design
    Mentor and develop those around them.
    Understand domain well enough to work with PO to drive value.
    Share knowledge with wider community.
    Innovation
    Comfortably evaluate new tools
    Produce Spike/POCs to establish usefulness of new tools.
    Understand when new tools may not be appropriate.
    Introduce new tools and methodologies when appropriate to simplify or increase efficiency of development.

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