Senior Backend Engineer

Key Skills

Aartificial intelligence, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud-EC2, Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Analytical and Problem solving, Apache Kafka, AWS, Azure, DevOps, DevSecOps, Docker, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes-K8s, Lambda, Machine learning techniques, Node.js, NoSQL, Planning and organization, Python Programming, Red Hat OpenShift, SQL

Job Description

Come join a team of industry and science leaders to achieve a vision of empowering innovation through state-of-the-art artificial intelligence leveraging cloud multiple clouds technologies. We are addressing exciting challenges for our customers, at the intersection of AI/ML and cutting-edge cloud infrastructure.

What you will do

• This is a hands-on position, you will do a lot of design and coding.
• Lead application development teams to build modern enterprise-scale cloud native applications.
• Ensure that overall teamwork is meeting requirements both business and technical.
• Conduct code reviews and establishment of coding best practices.
• Interface with Product Management and Program Management, in addition to other teams to coordinate delivery of technical capabilities.
• Engage with cloud architect and act as the SME to create cloud native application design that can include aspects such as containerization, API first, serverless, and microservices architecture.
• Develop and maintain software applications (Node JS / Python) in the Cloud (AWS preferred) using Agile software development methodologies.
• Perform hands-on development of cloud-based implementations with emphasis on AWS.
• Perform software development tasks associated with the developing, designing, and debugging of software applications.
• Collaborate with Scrum Masters, Business Analysts, Developers, and Architects to develop and analyze platform requirements.
• Collaborate with DevOps / MLOps lead on delivering end-to-end automation of deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure management in a cloud environment.
• Design and implement system databases and backend tiers.
• Sustain and improve how knowledge is shared throughout the portfolio team.

Basic qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical focus.
• 2+ years of experience with both Node JS and Python required.
• 2+ years of experience in application design, development, and implementation.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience leading the design, development, and deployment of business software at scale.
• At least 2+ years of experience developing cloud-native applications using a microservices, serverless, event-driven architecture.
• At least 2+ years of hands-on experience with AWS Cloud (IAM, EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFront, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, ElastiCache, Kinesis, Kafka).
• 2+ years of experience developing and deploying applications in a container environment such as AWS ECS, Red Hat Open Shift container.
• Demonstrate a good understanding of container management tools (e.g., Docker, OpenShift), container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes).
• 2+ years of experience in RESTful API design and development.
• 2+ years of experience developing with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• 2+ years of experience applying DevOps/DevSecOps principles.
• At least 2+ years of experience with Agile, Kanban, or Scrum methodologies for software development.
• Familiarity with Test-Driven Development (TDD) and/or Behavior-Driven Development (BDD).
• Effective written and oral communication skills.
• Self-motivated individual that possesses excellent time management and organizational skills.
• Excellent judgment, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience working on Machine Learning projects.
• Ability to facilitate interactions with product management and developers.
• Experience with Azure or GCP (in addition to AWS).
• AWS Certified Developer.