Responsibilities:

● Lead the development of the backend systems for our first product

● Build reliable, secure and performant backend systems

● Drive test coverage and continuous delivery automation within the team

● Mentor and provide feedback to teammates

Requirements:

● 8+ years of software development experience

● Strong computer science fundamentals

● Deep and wide knowledge of Java ecosystem

● Can write code that is readable, maintainable, secure and performant

● Know the importance of tests and how to approach writing different types of tests

● Good intuition for REST API design

● Deep understanding of relational databases, transactions, entity-relationship modeling

● Comfortable writing highly concurrent systems

● Experienced in using profilers, tuning garbage collection, optimizing SQL queries

Bonus:

● Understanding of domain-driven design concepts like ubiquitous language, bounded contexts, aggregates and domain events

● Know how to use test driven development as a design tool

● Good intuition for the principles underlying object-orientation, particularly encapsulation

● Understand the importance of immutability and of reducing the state-space of objects

● Know how to refactor large codebases safely

● Seek to identify key underlying ideas and use those as building blocks before reaching for shiny new tools