Senior Backend Engineer

Own features from business requirement clarification through design, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and support. Translate business needs into technical solutions with clear trade-offs around quality, scalability, cost, and delivery speed. Design and develop Java-based backend services, APIs, and business logic for complex order management workflows. Design and troubleshoot asynchronous flows, synchronous APIs, Error handling, and reconciliation. Monitor application health, logs, performance, and operational metrics. Participate in on-call rotations and support production stability with a strong operational mindset. Act as a reliable team member who can independently deliver work and unblock delivery. Use AI tools to accelerate development, testing, and troubleshooting. Learn unfamiliar systems quickly, especially enterprise platforms like IBM Sterling OMS. Work with both modern and legacy stacks Production Ownership On-call experience, debugged live issues, end-to-end feature ownership, postmortems Java Backend (3+ yrs) OOP, design patterns, concurrency, Spring Boot/Spring Framework REST APIs & Integration Production-grade APIs, third-party integrations, versioning, error handling AWS Serverless & Architecture Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS, EventBridge, S3; understand cold starts, cost optimization, failure modes, high-availability patterns, serverless design tradeoffs Database & SQL Query optimization, transactions, migrations, schema design, RDS optimization Observability & Troubleshooting Logging, metrics, tracing, cross-system debugging, SLO/SLI, CloudWatch Angular Frontend (2+ yrs) Components, services, routing, TypeScript Event-Driven IBM MQ, RabbitMQ, Kafka, event sourcing, CQRS, async architectures Testing & Code Quality Unit tests, integration tests, TDD, clean code Learning Agility Learn Enterprise app in Full-Stack Delivery Own features end-to-end: design code test deploy monitor support NICE-TO-HAVE IBM Sterling OMS Order orchestration, task patterns, user exits, APIs, fulfillment workflows Advanced Java/Spring Spring Data JPA, Spring Cloud, microservices, DDD, reactive streams AWS Advanced CloudFormation/CDK, Step Functions, Kinesis, advanced VPC/networking, multi-region failover Tech Leadership Open-source contributions, technical writing, mentoring, architecture discussions

Desired Candidate Profile

Production Ownership On-call experience, debugged live issues, end-to-end feature ownership, postmortems Java Backend (3+ yrs) OOP, design patterns, concurrency, Spring Boot/Spring Framework REST APIs & Integration Production-grade APIs, third-party integrations, versioning, error handling AWS Serverless & Architecture Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS, EventBridge, S3; understand cold starts, cost optimization, failure modes, high-availability patterns, serverless design tradeoffs Database & SQL Query optimization, transactions, migrations, schema design, RDS optimization Observability & Troubleshooting Logging, metrics, tracing, cross-system debugging, SLO/SLI, CloudWatch Angular Frontend (2+ yrs) Components, services, routing, TypeScript Event-Driven IBM MQ, RabbitMQ, Kafka, event sourcing, CQRS, async architectures Testing & Code Quality Unit tests, integration tests, TDD, clean code Learning Agility Learn Enterprise app in Full-Stack Delivery Own features end-to-end: design code test deploy monitor support NICE-TO-HAVE IBM Sterling OMS Order orchestration, task patterns, user exits, APIs, fulfillment workflows Advanced Java/Spring Spring Data JPA, Spring Cloud, microservices, DDD, reactive streams AWS Advanced CloudFormation/CDK, Step Functions, Kinesis, advanced VPC/networking, multi-region failover Tech Leadership Open-source contributions, technical writing, mentoring, architecture discussions