Software Engineer II, Backend

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Software Engineer II Backend

San Diego CA

Primary Responsibilities:

• You will provide strong technical abilities in cloud-based software development and highly scalable API designs
• Design implement and maintain RESTful Web Services API and algorithms
• Produce excellent detailed design and development documentation
• Work with team members to deliver features on time respond to evolving requirements and strategic shifts in direction
• Familiar and comfortable with Agile/Scrum software development methodology

Qualifications:

• 2-5 years of proven programming experience in Java (or equivalent enterprise back-end) developing server-side applications object-oriented design and design patterns and passionate about writing high-quality and well-architected code
• Experience in building high-performance and cloud-based scalable web services
• Experience implementing services backed by SQL and NoSQL data stores
• Strong understanding of engineering standard methodologies requirement gathering and analysis design and develop secure and scalable code with unit tests participate in code reviews and documentation experience with multiple technology stacks
• Ability to balance periodic on-call duty and defensive engineering to minimize impact
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with Amazon Web Services and cloud architecture
• Knowledge of DevOps practices containerization Docker/Kubernetes

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