Senior Software Engineer - Backend Development

Description :

Backend & API Development :

- Design, develop, and maintain Java Spring Bootbased microservices with a strong focus on scalability, reliability, and performance

- Lead and contribute to API design and development, including RESTful services used by both first-party and third-party consumers

- Orchestrate and manage service-to-service communication in a microservice-based architecture

- Ensure services follow best practices for security, observability, versioning, and backward compatibility

Cloud & Platform Engineering :

- Build and deploy cloud-native applications, with a strong preference for Microsoft Azure

- Contribute to cloud infrastructure design, deployment pipelines, monitoring, and operational excellence

- Collaborate on production support, incident response, and root-cause analysis

- Leverage cloud-native services to improve scalability, resiliency, and cost efficiency

- Apply AWS experience where applicable (strong plus)

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Business Acumen :

- Partner closely with internal stakeholders (product, operations, business teams) to understand requirements and deliver practical solutions

- Demonstrate strong business acumen, balancing technical rigor with timelines and business priorities

- Work closely with Data Engineers to support data pipelines, analytics use cases, and data-driven integrations

Quality, Reliability & Ownership :

- Own services throughout their lifecyclefrom design to production support

- Write clean, testable, and maintainable code with appropriate unit, integration, and contract testing

- Participate in code reviews and architectural discussions to raise overall engineering quality

- Contribute to documentation, runbooks, and operational best practices

Requirements :

Required Qualifications :

- 47 years of relevant software engineering experience, with a strong focus on backend development

- Expertise in Java and the Spring Boot framework

- Proven experience building and operating microservices in production environments

- Strong experience with cloud application development (Azure strongly preferred)

- Solid understanding of RESTful API design, distributed systems, and service-oriented architectures

- Experience collaborating directly with non-engineering stakeholders and translating business requirements into technical solutions

Preferred/Nice to Have Qualifications :

- Experience with AWS in addition to Azure

- Exposure to frontend development (not required, but helpful for cross-team collaboration)

- Experience working closely with data engineering teams

- Hands-on experience with data platforms or tools such as Snowflake and/or DBT

Familiarity with :

- Temporal (workflow orchestration)

- Tidal (job scheduling)

- Splunk (logging, monitoring, observability)

- Prior experience in a retail or e-commerce organization

- Experience integrating with third-party seller marketplaces, especially:

- Amazon

- Walmart