Software Engineer

We're looking for a Software Engineer for one of our Acquisitions team, working with a multitude of micro-services achieving various goals for our marketing partners such as real-time merchandising or promotion enrollment. Your work will focus on highly efficient systems dealing with large volumes of real time data, delivered to various systems to enable targeted marketing.

Responsibilities

• Make existing systems simpler (e.g. by consolidating redundant systems, deleting unnecessary code, or removing/updating out of date documentation).
• Solve straightforward problems, seeking input and guidance from team members.
• Take defined design and turn it into code and deliver it on schedule, applying appropriate technologies and current software engineering best practices.
• Write secure, stable, testable, maintainable code with minimal defects.
• Participate in team design, scoping and prioritization discussions.
• Work effectively with other team members & identify any opportunities/problems arising from technical decisions.
• Propose pragmatic solutions to problems and be eager to learn from and educate others.
• You own parts of product and technology & strive to become a subject matter expert.
• You write simple and extendable code following standards and best practices. You test your code thoroughly.
• You help your team evolve by actively participating in the code review process, design discussions, team planning, and support ticket reviews.
• You clearly document your software to ensure that future generations of developers understand the intention behind the features and components you build.
• In the event of a problem, you can troubleshoot and thoroughly resolve defects.
• You provide excellent customer support.
• You estimate stories/tasks and deliver them on time.
• Most importantly, you are humble, pragmatic, self-managed, thirsty for knowledge, never satisfied and always challenging the norm. Responsible for the state of the code you both inherit and produce.
• You participate in the on-call support rotation for your organisation.
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.

What We're Looking For

What we're looking for in our next teammate

• Degree in Computer Science or related software engineering field, or equivalent practical experience. 2+ years of relevant work experience.
• Strong backend engineering experience with Java, including building and maintaining production-grade services.
• Working knowledge of ReactJS - you'll collaborate closely with the team across the full stack day-to-day.
• Understanding of DevOps and Infrastructure as Code concepts (we use Terraform).
• Understanding of relational and non-relational databases, messaging queues, and concurrency patterns.
• Some experience with event streaming technologies.
• Knowledge of AWS and cloud-based infrastructure.
• Familiarity with containers (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Understanding of modern backend architectures, design patterns, and distributed systems.
• Experience with testing concepts and integrating testing best practices throughout the SDLC.
• Experience working in an Agile environment (we use Kanban).

Who you are

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and adapting to change.