Backend Developer

Backend Developer

Responsibilities

• Building testing and deploying the software using our standard CI/CD pipelines
• Building micro services for processing data reading/writing to the database exposing data to other applications and more.
• Using the architectural patterns that are relevant for a specific context such as eventbased data streaming requestresponse web services file transport jobs and more.
• Making sure that relevant logs are created are understandable are shared with our central logging platform and that the necessary alerts are setup.
• Testing your software from a functional quality faulttolerance performance and scalability perspective.
• Building security features into the solution such as federated authentication and authorization rolebased access control and similar.
• Engaging in a guild for backend developers to share knowledge technical patterns and ways of working across product teams.

Key Experience

Most important

• Backend applications: Mostly coded in Java
• Event streaming: Confluent Kafka (KStreams etc.)
• Database technologies: Mostly MongoDB Atlas (and some PostgreSQL)
  

Fairly important

• Authentication: OIDC OAuth2 SAML
• Containerization: Docker
• Container orchestration: Kubernetes
• Logging monitoring & Alerting: ELK stack
  

Least important

• Version control: Azure DevOps
• CI/CD Pipelines: Jenkins Argo Azure DevOps
• Requirements: Jira
• Documentation: Confluence