BlackBuck - Software Development Engineer II - Java

Roles and Responsibilities :

- Design, develop and maintain highly available backend services

- Collaborate with engineers from your own team and across teams, and with product managers to ensure timely delivery of projects.

- Create robust RESTful APIs and integrate with upstream/downstream services.

- Work with various database systems (SQL and NoSQL) to design efficient data models and access patterns for services.

- Utilize technologies like Kafka and Redis to optimize inter-service communication and performance.

- Write unit and integration tests and participate in code reviews to maintain high code quality and reliability.

- Identify and address performance bottlenecks in the services by optimizing code ,database queries and infrastructure.

- Participate in weekly on-call process and pro-actively debug and resolve issues reported in production to ensure high system availability.

- Write documents on high level design, low level design and RCAs.

- Support in hiring developers by taking interviews.

- Provide training and mentorship to SDE-I

- BE or higher in Computer Science or related technical discipline (or equivalent)

- Minimum 3 years of work experience as a backend engineer in a microservices environment

- Excellent coding skills in Java

- Experience building RESTful services using Spring/Spring Boot framework

- Exposure to Relational Databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL

- Exposure to any of the monitoring, alerting and logging tools like NewRelic, Prometheus, PagerDuty, VictorOps, ELK etc.

- Experience in producing good quality code with unit and functional test cases

- Experience with agile development methodologies

- Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills

- Should have command over Data Structures and Algorithms

- Ability to work well with others and thrive in a dynamic and challenging work environment

Desired to Have :

- Exposure to NoSQL databases like MongoDB, Cassandra etc.

- Exposure to any of the public clouds like AWS, GCP and Azure

- Exposure to event streaming platforms like Kafka

- Exposure to caching technologies like Redis and Hazelcast