Senior Microservices Developer

Title- Senior Microservices Developer

Location- Oakland, CA

Job Information Job Taxonomy

Senior Software Engineer - 03460

Job Title

Senior Microservices Developer

Job Category

Engineer

Job Description

The Software Engineer will help support and build the Modernized Microservices Applications Suite. Along with writing effective code, the position will be responsible for designing, building, delivering and maintaining a highly scalable set of products and applications. The incumbent will use industry best practices and work collaboratively with cross-functional team of product managers, architects, principal engineers, software engineers, test automation team and DevOPS engineers

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test and maintain microservices to support our consumer facing applications.
• Write highest quality code with utmost attention to scalability, security and performance. Use TDD and participate in code-reviews with other software engineers.
• Collaborate with DevOps team to setup the build and delivery pipeline. Add instrumentation and monitoring to support production environments. Build Docker containers and container management.
• Accurately scope effort, identify risks and clearly communicate trade-offs with team members and other stakeholders.
• Ship high quality products and features with an end-to-end mindset from conception to delivery and production support; owning specifications, quality, release deployments and monitoring of production health.

Skills/Experience

Minimum Qualifications

• 4+ w/Bachelors degree

Additional Experience

• Experience designing and developing highly scalable and secure Applications and Products
• BS in computer science or equivalent technical field or equivalent work experience.
• MS is a plus.
• Experience with developing and deploying applications on Azure or similar cloud platform

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Ability to understand business plans and apply that information into the development of an IT business case
• Anticipates problems, resistance or likely objections and takes action to resolve them
• Ability to guide, train and mentor associate engineers
• Highly skilled in developing quantitative cost/benefit analysis to measure improvements
• Proficient in organizational processes as well as capable of assessing and initiating change of such processes
• Demonstrates an in-depth knowledge and application of competency and can consult as well as lead others in its application
• Strong communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills
• Knowledge of agile development methodologies
• Ability to develop and maintain key vendor relationships with a focus on technology currency and best practices
• Life-long learner, process improver