SeniorBackend Developer

Title: Senior Back End Developer

# Open: 2

Location: Remote - (Woonsocket, RI is a huge plus)

Remote / Hybrid Schedule: Remote

*If there are people local to RI where other team members sit - they are welcome to go onsite

Hours | Shift | On Call | Time Zone: 9-5pm (EST hours)

Exclusive: No

• 2 or 3 others: Just started 1st round interview process

Start Date: ASAP

Duration: 6 months with potential to extend

Interview Process: 2 Rounds

• First - Leader on the team who is available
• Not a ton of technical - more technical question on their resume no live coding - culture fit - 30 min
• Second - Technical panel interview
• Technical questions and high expectations - live coding and the ID of their choice - want to see their approach and ability to understand questions and ask questions - how do they collaborate

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain backend microservices using Java and Spring Boot
• Build and integrate APIs (both GraphQL and REST) for scalable service communication
• Deploy and manage services on Google Cloud Platform (GKE)
• Work with Google Cloud Spanner (Postgres dialect) and pub/sub tools like Confluent Kafka (or similar)
• Automate CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Argo CD

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend development experience with Java and Spring Boot
• 2+ years working with APIs (GraphQL and REST) in microservices architectures
• 2+ years hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform, AWS, or Azure
• 2+ years working with pub/sub tools like Kafka or similar
• 2+ years experience with databases (Postgres or similar)
• 2+ years experience with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Argo CD, or similar)

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform
• Familiarity with Kubernetes concepts; experience deploying services on GKE is a plus
• Strong understanding of microservice best practices and distributed systems

Breakdown of Skills

• 75% coding
• 25% planning and design (daily standups)

5+ years experience

• Wants these Senior people to be hands on, able to help more junior team members and mentor/give feedback. Someone who is going to be proactive, ask questions and be a strong team player who is adaptable and open. Complex thinkers, able to think through different types of problems and solutions

Back End

• Java Spring boot is must have
• Modernization
• Prefer Google Cloud Platform AWS ok but must be highly skilled in that
• Agile environment 3 weeks sprints now moving to 2 week sprints

Interview for Back End role:-

• #1 hands on spring boot
• #2 cloud experience Google Cloud Platform
• #3 java programming

*Another note was people who have done migration from monolithic to microservices architecture or modernization projects