Backend Engineer

Description:

*Responsibilities:
• Hands on development on building n-tier applications using RESTful Services, Java/J2EE, CosmosDB/non-sql tech
• Participate in managing code & configurations for multiple environments, release management process, creating and maintaining environment configuration and controls, code integrity
• Analyzing business requirements, story-boards and similar artifacts of the scrum process, work in an agile development environment with a quick turnaround time and iterative builds.
• Leads the discovery phase of medium to large projects to come up with high level design
• Troubleshoots business and production issues
• Ensures inclusion of business vision and industry trends to enable results that drive business
• Problem solving and troubleshooting design and development issues and provide appropriate solutions
• Ability to communicate effectively, both written and verbal, with technical and non-technical cross-functional teams
• A desire to work in a fast-paced and challenging work environment.

*Manager's Ideal Candidate Must-Haves:
• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related field and 10 years’ experience building scalable ecommerce applications
• 10 or more years of experience programming in Java/J2EE, , REST Services, Apache and Tomcat
• 4+ years of experience any NoSQL, prefer Cosmos
• 8 or more years experience building services and using Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

*Manager's Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with Eclipse. Experience with GIT, and Ant or Maven is a plus
• Experience configuring & deploying applications on J2EE application server (Apache Tomcat, WebLogic, WebSphere) a plus
• Experience with UNIX shell and scripting
• Experience in building/implementing high performance & a scalable system is a plus.
• Knowledge of standard tools for optimizing and testing code.
• Ability to operate effectively and independently in a dynamic, fluid environment