Job Title: Backend Developer

Location: Richfield, MN.

Duration: 9+ Months contract

Project Description:

The post purchase team builds and manages highly scalable and performant APIs and data interfaces for marketplace orders, offers, returns and payout functionality. The team follows Agile methodology to manage delivery of application features.

Skills Overview:

What are the top five skills and number of years of experience required to perform this job?

Java 7 years
Spring, Spring boot 5 years
Rest API 5 years
Kafka 4 years
Relational Database (Postgres is preferable) 4 years

Experience building highly scalable and performing applications (candidate understands considerations for state, session management, caching, consistency, concurrency, threading, messaging, and inter-system dependencies)
Expertise in developing REST APIs using Java or Groovy and Spring, Springboot
Expertise in developing event driven applications using Kafka messaging with backend relational database Postgres SQL.
Highly proficient in industry current software development techniques (patterns, principles, and processes)
Strong foundation in troubleshooting issues, coming up with potential solutions to fix the issues.
Candidate must be prepared to pair program in a TDD and Agile environment with senior level engineers.
BS/MS in computer science or engineering (or equivalent professional experience)

What are some preferred/nice to have skills the manager is looking for?

Proficient in Mac OS and/or IntelliJ for development
Knowledge of and working experience with open-source software (e.g. Apache, Tomcat, Apache HTTP Client etc.).
Experience with Cloud Computing platforms (e.g. Amazon AWS, Google Cloud)
Experience in performance testing and subsequent tuning of APIs and SQL queries
DevOps infrastructure experience
Groovy with Spock is desired
Experience with observability and monitoring tools like Splunk, Grafana, Looker Studio
Experience with AI coding tools like GitHub copilot

Backend Developer

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