Backend Developer - Kafka/MySQL

Responsibilities :

- Develop and maintain APIs and capabilities for web services that power experimentation products

- Solve technical problems to improve our development process, increase our efficiency and unlock new business opportunities.

- Take initiative to improve existing solutions, challenge decisions, propose augmented alternatives and address technical debt.

- Contribute to technical discussion around software architecture and help the team to make decisions that are agile, incremental and beneficial for the long term

- Refactor and simplify code by introducing design patterns when necessary and guide more junior members of the team in this topic

- Systematically identify patterns and underlying issues in complex situations, and to find solutions by applying logical and analytical thinking

Skills :

- Minimum of 5 years of software development experience; experience with Java

- Proven experience with MySQL/PostgreSQL/Cassandra or similar relational databases

- Experience with SOA

- Practical experience with APIs development, Graph QL & Kafka queues.

- Experience with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing paradigms.

- Experience with defining and upholding SLOs/KPIs

- Experience with experimentation, statistics and A/B testing is a plus

- Experience with building highly scalable distributed systems and batch processing pipelines is an advantage.

- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail

- Preferably a university degree in Software Engineering or related field

- Excellent communication; written and spoken

- Experience in the insurance industry is a plus.

- Experience working with teams located in different timezones is a plus