Backend Developer

Stefanini Group•Dearborn, MI

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Stefanini Group is hiring! Stefanini is looking for a Backend Developer (Dearborn, MI). We are seeking candidates who will develop and maintain the back-end/server-side parts of an application, typically consisting of APIs, databases, and other services containing business logic. They work with various languages and tools to create and maintain services on-prem or in the cloud.

Requirements

2 or more years of professional experience in backend software engineering with a focus on cloud-native services on GCP or equivalent cloud platforms.
Proficiency in Python, C++, and Java for backend service development.
Experience designing and implementing REST and gRPC APIs, with a strong grasp of API versioning, backward compatibility, and documentation practices.
Hands-on experience with GCP services including Cloud Run, GKE, Pub/Sub, Cloud Build, and Cloud Logging.
Experience with event-driven architecture patterns and message queue systems; Kafka familiarity is a strong plus given TOP's observability stack.
Solid understanding of CI/CD pipeline design and implementation in a GitHub-based development workflow.
Experience instrumenting services with OpenTelemetry or equivalent observability frameworks.
Demonstrated ability to write clean, testable, well-documented code in a collaborative team environment.

Nice To Haves

Experience integrating with LLM inference APIs or AI engine backends.
Familiarity with automotive data formats or telematics data structures.
Google Cloud Professional Cloud Developer certification.
Familiarity with OpenAPI specification and API gateway patterns on GCP.

Responsibilities

Engage with customers to understand their use-cases and requirements.
Design, develop, and deliver new code using various tools, languages, frameworks, and technologies.
Develop and maintain back-end applications like APIs and microservices using server-side languages like Java, Python, C#, etc.
Manage application deployment to the cloud or on-prem, health and performance monitoring, security hardening, and disaster recovery for deployed applications.
Manage data storage and retrievals in applications by utilizing database technologies such as Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB, etc.
Promote improvements in programming practices, such as test-driven development, continuous integration, and continuous delivery.
Optimize back-end infrastructure and deployment practices to improve application resiliency and reliability.
Support security practices to safeguard user data including encryption and anonymization.