Senior Software Engineer

Roberts Recruiting•Quincy, MA

30d•Onsite

About The Position

We are looking for a world class Senior Back End Engineer to help shape the engineering team and build a world class product! We were created when a Rockstar Registered Nurse and a whip-smart techie joined forces to create a proprietary scheduling system. The two set out on a mission to change the never-ending nursing shortage in healthcare.

Requirements

6+ years of Java development experience
Strong OOP experience
Experience with Maven, Junit
Database experience desired
NoSQL experienced desired
Experience working in distributed systems.
Experience architecting backend systems using Java based microservices
Good understanding of AWS Cloud (EC2, S3, ECS)
Exposure to CI/CD, static code analysis
Previous experience as a technical lead desired
Growth mindset: receives feedback easily and incorporates it quickly
Proactive executor: thoughtful in approach and decisive in decisions
Pragmatic: balance scrappiness and rigor
Great technical communicator
Strong attention to detail
Strong product and architectural instincts
Enthusiasm and passion for quality
Takes responsibility for making sure issues are resolved

Responsibilities

Implement changes that precisely match product specifications
Help improve specification by asking questions about edge cases and behavior during the planning and scoping stages
Provide product feedback to the rest of the team when new ideas and problems arise
Focus on projects that have an impact on improving business metrics and allow the team to quickly implement A|B tests to help determine improvements
Increase the visibility of service performance and health and ensure we have the appropriate logs/alerts in place to respond quickly and recover from problems
Improve the stability and performance of the backend services, and increase visibility into the health of the system by improving our logging, alerting, and process around recovering from problems
Write code that has been tested well enough before shipping so that we do not cause a noticeable increase in the number of support issues filed over time
When critical bugs are shipped to production, proactively identify root causes and take the appropriate resolution actions so that we can recover quickly
Stay up to date on the latest technologies relevant to the backend tech stack, and use this knowledge to implement new features and changes if they’ll provide a better experience
Proactively assist other engineers on the team in fixing bugs and shipping features and updates
Write maintainable code that can be quickly updated as needed, and is testable and easily understood by other engineers on the team
Provide fairly accurate engineering time estimates
Be on call from time to time if there are critical issues on production that need debugging
Take ownership and responsibility to finish the features and issues assigned to you, while collaborating with the team
Assist deploying builds to production and QA environments, and have visibility on the status of Pull Requests and builds as they get deployed
Provide helpful code reviews and ensure PRs do not linger with long delays in review time
Devise innovative and cost-effective strategies for identifying and preventing bugs
Proactively refactor code that needs improvement, but without getting lost in constantly refactoring projects
Build a secure application architecture and work with other teams to build a secure information architecture
Become a reliable go-to resource on the team for feature changes and updates as new projects arise, such that you can be relied on to ship the changes in a timely manner at the quality level expected by the team