Software Engineer: IV Remote Backend Java Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Software Engineer: IV Remote Backend Java Engineer (contract)

Client: Confidential e-Commerece Client

Duration: 6 months

Timezone: PST

Rate: $80-115/h

Who You Are

You have a strong ability to self-regulate and problem solve through obstacles in a dynamic, fast-paced environment; maintains realistic estimations and escalates proactively when necessary

You attack challenging and abstract problems by breaking them down into smaller problems, coming up with hypotheses, and proving or disproving them in a systematic way

You are excited and enthusiastic about the prospect of tackling challenging problems

You connect your code to the business problems being solved and translate effectively across business and technical boundaries

You’re motivated to learn about and impact a new market

Your Qualifications

BS or BA in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience

5+ years of software development experience; object-oriented design skills and knowledge of website design and usability

Strong Java skills Solid SQL experience

Experience delivering enterprise software strongly preferred

Experience diagnosing and fixing performance, scalability, and concurrency issues, both in the application and in the database, strongly preferred

Experience in Hibernate and/or Spring preferred

Experience with Google Cloud, Kubernetes, and Gradle are nice-to-have

What You’ll Do

You will work in fast-paced environment to help generate ideas and quickly turn them into robust, well-tested, functioning code (including but not limited to Java)

You will work with product management to define and prioritize future functionality

You will operate in a modified scrum environment where we spec, estimate, and divide up work as a team and then manage ourselves independently

You will peer review other engineers’ code to help identify bugs, performance issues, security issues, and provide feedback on code cleanliness

You will play a key role in the development of best practices in software design, implementation, and coding standards

You will produce exemplary code and deliver completed projects in the time promised

You will perform unit and system level testing on their application and all affected systems

You will implement all aspects of an application design including but not limited to: high-performance design, coding, caching mechanisms, state management, error logging, scalability, environment configuration, proper testing procedures, naming standards and all other aspects of good application design and development