Senior Backend Engineer

Scentbird is a company focused on revolutionizing the fragrance experience through a digital subscription service. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to develop and enhance their payment and subscription infrastructure, ensuring it is robust, scalable, and reliable while collaborating with product management and maintaining high-quality standards.

Responsibilities:

• Develop features and improvements to the Scentbird product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way
• Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment
• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance
• Solve technical problems of moderate scope and complexity
• Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review
• Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team ("technical debt"), propose and implement solutions
• Represent Scentbird and its values in public communication around specific projects and community contributions
• Confidently ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects

Requirements:

• Significant professional experience with Java or language required by the specialty, 7+ years experience
• Experience with GraphQL, SpringBoot
• Experience with PostgresQL 2+ years
• Experience with cloud providers Amazon AWS or similar
• Experience with Grafana/NewRelic or similar technologies
• Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems JVM profiling, database profiling)
• Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process
• CI/CD experience
• Experience with SPA is a plus
• Experience with Kubernetes is a plus
• TDD experience is a plus