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NavanNavanPalo Alto, CA

Senior Back-End Engineer

Designs and implements backend APIs and core services for mission-critical payment/booking features. Requires 5+ years experience, strong architecture skills, ownership, and leadership; Java/AWS/Spring a plus.

113k – 252k/yr
On-site5+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

What You’ll Do

  • Designing and implementing APIs and core services
  • Developing models and business logic
  • Building out impactful product features
  • Ensure the quality of the features you built, follow-up on usage/issues post release
  • Work closely with product and design team to deliver new features that align with the needs of the business
  • Provide technical leadership and mentoring to other engineers on the team
  • Contribute and drive frameworks that lead to significant user experience improvements
  • Assist the team in understanding and adopting new technologies

What We’re Looking For

  • Strong programming skills and CS fundamentals combined with 5+ years of experience building products
  • Deep architecture and API design skills to build core services and new product features
  • Strong sense of ownership demonstrated through shipping production-quality code equipped with testing, monitoring and documentation
  • Passion for solving problems and learning new tools and technologies
  • Excellent communication skills working with stakeholders and domain experts across the company to design solutions to user problems
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
  • Prior experience working at startups and/or on consumer-facing products
  • Experience with Java, AWS and/or distributed systems is a plus
  • Experience with Hibernate or similar ORM technologies is a plus
  • Experience with Spring Framework is a plus

Skills

JavaAWSSpring FrameworkHibernateAPIsDistributed SystemsOrm

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