Senior Java Developer

  • Remote - Costa Rica

Remote

Software Development

Senior

Job description

At Remotebase, we are dedicated to building a thriving remote work community that connects talented individuals with top-tier clients. We are currently in search of an experienced Senior Java Developer to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining high-performance backend systems that meet the needs of our diverse set of clients.

Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for feature design; evaluate designs and provide feedback
  • Influence quality standards and understand, identify, measure across entire solution
  • Identify performance issues and optimize solutions
  • Demonstrate competence of engineering concepts and theories, combining them with business understanding to design, document and implement clean and robust solutions to complex business problems
  • Collaborate with other engineering teams, business stakeholders, as well as program and product managers to define and implement technical solutions
  • Demonstrate an ability to turn business needs into functional requirements, while also explaining technical details in ways the business can understand.
  • Participate in defining, scoping, and estimating resulting stories
  • Work closely with your peers and help the team achieve its goals
  • Maintain a high bar for code quality, testing and automation while finding opportunities to continuously improve them
  • Drive design and code reviews, ensuring the team ships high quality, scalable, maintainable, and well-tested code
  • Maintain a DevOps mindset, promoting cloud-oriented solutions while implementing and supporting monitoring, alerting, CI/CD pipelines as well as the team’s Cloud infrastructure

Architecture & Design

  • Designs at the organization level, considering up/downstream integration.
  • Designs systems where implementation spans multiple weeks or months, and incorporates a full team’s worth of engineers.
  • Makes technical decisions and influences priorities and tradeoffs that enable solutions to achieve short and long term business objectives.
  • Takes ownership of systems or designs that span multiple people’s work, breaking work into smaller tasks for more junior engineers to support.
  • Understands tradeoffs in different types of engineering processes, and can adjust a team process to meet the needs of the project and others on the team.

Engineering Practices

  • Understands relevant architecture, network or systems across the team.

  • Deeply familiar with standard industry practices for work tracking to ensure work delivery is consistent, measurable and within stated goals.

  • Has a strong understanding of the business and is aware of how strategies and tactics work in the marketplace.

  • Leads work processes and design reviews across the team.

  • Identifies potential gaps and solutions to problems that may not exist yet.

  • 5+ years of professional experience in delivering quality software, ideally across the full stack. Overall Engineer level IV (7-10 years’ experience)

  • Excellent proficiency in an Object-Oriented language, such as Java

  • Proficient with Java, Java Spring Boot Framework, Containerization(K8s/Docker)

  • Test automation experience at all levels (Unit, Integration, Regression, Load)

  • Familiarity with modern infrastructure tools and pipelines (Gitlab CI/CD, Terraform)

  • Experience with RESTful architecture and micro services

  • Experience with system design, architecture, scaling, and performance testing.

  • Experience building services a plus

  • Experience with Cloud technologies specially AWS

  • Experience with databases like postgres.

  • Experience with Cache based low latency system design

  • Familiarity with CI/CD and testing tools.

  • Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals

  • Familiarity with ops tools, logging, and metrics (New Relic, Splunk)

  • Experience with messaging technologies and patterns (Kafka/SQS)

  • Fully remote.

  • Flexible timings. You decide your work scheduled.

  • Market competitive compensation (in $$).

  • Insane learning and growth

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