Sr. Software Engineer II - Backend

Company: Associates Systems LLC
Location: Minneapolis
Posted on: October 20, 2024

Job Description:

The Job:As a Sr. Software Engineer II on the Backend Team, you will:

• Implement APIs and other backend systems as designed by Senior Engineers. You're past the training wheels phase of your career and can implement tasks on your own.
• Maintain and support existing APIs, data management systems, and infrastructure components that are used in a high-scale customer-facing environment.
• Work with Senior Engineers on designing and documenting project architecture. Since the next step in your career is being a Senior, you'll be getting daily exposure to architecture design decisions.
• Continued education/training. Following the tenant of continuous improvement, everyone should be always working in some way towards the next step in their career.
• Mentoring entry-level engineers. Everyone on the team is responsible for mentoring engineers that are lower in the career ladder than they are. As a Software Engineer II, you are in the first position with an opportunity to mentor engineers early in their career.
• Advocate for improvements to our products' quality and performance with the Product and Business teams.
• Performance tuning and improvement with a specific focus on reducing load time for mobile users on a highly trafficked mobile ecommerce application.
• Provide mentorship and training for engineers earlier in their career so that you can help them grow their technical skills and remove blockers to their autonomy and career progression. Be a positive inspiration for their growth.The Qualifications:
• 5 - 10 years professional experience in web application development or completion or significant coursework towards completion of a Computer Science degree/relevant certification program or significant code that can be shown from personal projects and/or open source contributions.
• Experience in one or more of: Javascript (minimum 5+ years experience) or other languages (minimum 5+ years experience).
• Experience writing automated tests with Jest or similar tools.
• At least 2 years experience building applications with React including experience with recent features like Hooks and Context. Strong understanding of current JavaScript paradigms and tooling ecosystem (i.e. ES2016+ & Webpack/Babel/etc).
• Demonstrated ability to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to other engineers as well as other non-technical co-workers. Demonstrated ability to design and document the architecture for complex systems.
• Strong knowledge of Git.
• Strong knowledge with Unix-based systems administration.
• Strong knowledge of Database Systems and SQL.The Preferred (but not required) Qualifications:
• BS/BA in Computer Science or related field of Engineering.
• Experience working with GraphQL.
• Experience with containerized applications.
• Experience with maintaining APIs developed in Go.
• Experience with Kubernetes.
• Extensive Python experience.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, software design patterns, relational and non-relational databases.
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