Backend Engineer - RIT Solutions : Job Details

Position Title: Backend Engineer Duration: Long Term Contract Location: Onsite in Phoenix, AZ, 85054 Notes:

• No hand-holding
• Strong backend engineer who can do Java based microservice working with Mongo database
• Able to work without understanding the full system - just give them the task and focus on deliverables is the goal
• Building firewall automation capability - accelerating the cloud journey (AWS GCP Azure)
• Automation of security/network controls onto the public clouds
• Knowledge of cloud eco-systems is nice-to-have
• Ex: Modify security group within AWS
• No order of importance for cloud
• Agile - 2 week sprints
• iSave has 1 scrum team: 1 Product owner, Program manager, a couple of architects, and 3 developers - really need to beef up the team to drive this forward
• Communication through JSON
• Network/security background is a plus - Infosec team

Job Description: Job Description

• Owns all technical aspects of software development for assigned applications
• Participates in the design and development of systems & application programs
• Functions as Senior member of an agile team and helps drive consistent development practices - tools, common components, and documentation
• Mentors engineers, and may have management responsibilities over 2-3 engineers
• Identifies opportunities to adopt innovative technologies
• Works closely with product owners on blueprints and annual planning of feature sets that impact multiple platforms and products
• Works with product owners to prioritize features for ongoing sprints and managing a list of technical requirements based on industry trends, new technologies, known defects, and issues

Experience and Qualifications

• 6-9 years of software development experience
• Demonstrated experience leading teams of engineers with at least one year's experience in a team leader role
• Familiar with Agile or other rapid application development methods
• Experience with design and coding across one or more platforms and languages as appropriate
• Hands-on expertise with application design, software development and automated testing
• bility to effectively interpret technical and business objectives and challenges, and articulate solutions
• bility to think abstractly and deal with ambiguous/under-defined problems
• bility to enable business capabilities through innovation
• Looks proactively beyond the obvious for continuous improvement opportunities
• Communicate effectively with tech, operations and business colleagues
• High energy, demonstrated willingness to learn new technologies, and takes pride in how fast they develop working software
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience, is required
• 6+ years of software development experience in a professional environment and/or comparable experience such as: Hands-on expertise with application design, software development, and automated testing.
• 5+ years of active engineering experience in a complex environment and/or comparable experience such as successful engineering and deployment of enterprise-grade technology assets in an Agile product environment.
• Hands-on experience in developing high performance backend applications using a variety of technologies, with specific expertise in Java (including advanced design pattern & common libraries) and cloud native technologies is a plus
• bility to construct enterprise-grade APIs using state-of-the-art techniques and best practices (REST, JSON, XML, etc.).
• Knowledge and expertise in Microservices Architecture, Data Centric application design, Event Driven Systems, Kafka, Cornerstone, Data pipelines, Stream processing systems etc. is a plus
• Experience using database systems like MongoDB, PostgresQL in a high performance and resilient configurations is a plus
• Experience working in JIRA
• Experience with GitHub / Git
• Technical and business knowledge in networking domain related to firewalls is a plus