Senior Java Backend Developer

• Top Skill sets: 7–9 years of experience; Java; Spring Boot; Microservices; Cloud; REST API; software development experience
• Writes, tests, and documents technical work products (e.g., code, scripts, processes) according to organizational standards and practices.
• Solves technical problems and builds components/libraries with far-ranging impact.
• Delivers high-quality work and coaches more junior engineers on technical craftsmanship.
• Conducts root cause analysis to identify systemic problems and defines and leads execution of action items to address them.
• Designs thoughtfully integrated systems that model organizational best practices, allowing disparate teams across product domains to deliver value with speed, scale, and reliability.
• Oversees the management of technical debt in existing systems and drives opportunities to eliminate it within ongoing implementations.
• Consistently anticipates scaling, latency, and durability challenges and guides teams in implementation of mitigating strategies.
• Partners with the security organization to incorporate security-conscious practices early in the lifecycle of new systems.
• Thoughtfully evaluates technical risks and guides toward practical prevention strategies.
• Consistently reflects on squad delivery practices throughout their span of influence, recommends improvements to leadership, and drives their implementation.
• Maintains a focus on removing duplication of effort across teams and proactively identifies opportunities for reuse within their span of influence.
• Thoughtfully measures and assesses team and identifies areas of development for individuals.
• Explores emerging technologies, leads development of prototypes with little or no guidance, and incorporates them into architectural solutions where appropriate.

Preferred Qualifications – Education & Prior Job Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering, or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training.
• Airline industry experience.

Skills, Licenses, and Certifications

• Proficiency with the following technologies:
• Programming Languages: Java, Python, C#, JavaScript/TypeScript
• Frameworks: Spring/Spring Boot, FastAPI
• Front End Technologies: Angular/React
• Deployment Technologies: Kubernetes, Docker
• Source Control: GitHub, Azure DevOps
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps
• Data Management: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis
• Integration/API Technologies: Kafka, REST, GraphQL
• Cloud Providers: Azure, AWS
• Test Automation: Selenium, TestNG, Postman, SonarQube, Cypress, JUnit/NUnit/PyTest, Cucumber, Playwright, Wiremock/Mockito/Moq

Additional skills and abilities:

• Ability to optimize solutions for performance, resiliency, and reliability while maintaining an eye toward simplicity.
• Ability to concisely convey ideas verbally, in writing, in code, and in diagrams.
• Ability to optimize system designs spanning multiple teams to allow small, safe, incremental releases.
• Ability to work through others by cooperatively sharing responsibilities.
• Ability to combine deep knowledge of a product domain with awareness of advancing technology to introduce solutions that propel the technical capability of the organization forward.
• Proficiency in object-oriented design techniques and principles.
• Proficiency in Agile methodologies, such as SCRUM.
• Proficiency in DevOps Toolchain methodologies, including Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment.