Senior Backend Engineer

Summary:

You’ll be working on a team that is responsible for all web, mobile, back-end software systems, integration pipes and various other digital properties for the organization. You will lead a group of talented engineers to work with stakeholders to create value for our customers and business. You will be collaborating closely with operational, development, and senior management teams.

• Design, build, test, deliver and maintain highly scalable and self-serve products, services, and APIs.
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables.
• Analyze key metrics to drive improvements on the development team.
• Ability to coach and mentor others, with an eye on team productivity and helping others succeed.
• Build new features and fix bugs for software by writing user stories, conducting design reviews, writing code, and deep dive into code reviews.
• Research, test, and refine development processes and agile software engineering methodology.
• Build basic architecture of large sub-systems.
• Be forward thinking when building systems, including performance, observability, scalability and reliability.
• Share and present technical solutions and findings.
• Maintain coding standards, code quality, code organization, and automatization.
• Understand project management ideology.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues as part of Tier 2 Support.
• Achieve performance targets.
• Collaborate and communicate effectively with team members and all other teams.
• Responsively and effectively handle issues.
• Look for ways to improve customer experience.
• Promote and model TuGo culture, values, and brand promise.
• Continuously build professional and technical expertise.
• Other duties as required.

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
• 5+ years’ software development experience
• Previous development experience building synchronous and asynchronous microservices based API and event-based systems with focus on observability, scalability and resiliency
• Strong software engineering skills with Java and related frameworks such as REST APIs, Spring Boot, Kafka, Hibernate, Elastic Search, Gradle, NoSQL databases such as Mongo, Couchbase, Redis
• Experience designing, implementing and documenting open APIs
• Experience with AWS or other cloud technologies
• Experience securing applications end to end, familiar with security standards such as PCI, OAuth2, OpenID, SAML, or JWT Web Token
• Strong ability to analyze complex requirements and work within an agile team to design effective solutions
• Previous Scrum or Kanban training considered an asset
• Strong team player and positive contributor
• Well-developed analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
• Able to consistently live our values of being valued, effective and trusted
• A strong customer experience focus
• A passion for continuous learning and professional achievement
• Successful completion of a criminal record check