Senior Backend Developer

Stefanini Group•Dearborn, MI

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Stefanini Group is hiring! Stefanini is looking for a Senior 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 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
Must be able to configure Cloud Run services including environment variables, secrets from Secret Manager, service-to-service authentication, concurrency settings, and CPU and memory allocation. They should also understand how Cloud Run integrates with Pub/Sub for event-driven invocation and how to configure VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) connector settings for private network access.
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
Bachelor's Degree

Nice To Haves

Microservices
Computer engineering
C++
REST APIs
Google Cloud Platform
GCP Cloud Run
Cloud Infrastructure
Java
Python
GitHub
Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems
Telematics
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
Certification Program

Responsibilities

Solve complex problems by designing, developing, and delivering using various tools, languages, frameworks, and technologies
Align with architecture guidelines for unified and coherent approach to development
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.