Backend Developer Lead

Software Engineer - Specialist

What youll do

• Demonstrate a deep understanding of cloud-native, distributed microservice-based architectures.
• Deliver solutions for complex business problems through standard Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) practices.
• Build strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders, including product, business, and sales partners.
• Demonstrate excellent communication skills with the ability to both simplify complex problems and also dive deeper if needed.
• Lead strong technical teams that deliver complex software solutions that scale.
• Work across teams to integrate our systems with existing internal systems.
• Participate in a tight-knit, globally distributed engineering team.
• Provide deep troubleshooting skills with the ability to lead and solve production and customer issues under pressure.
• Leverage strong experience in full-stack software development and public cloud platforms like GCP and AWS.
• Mentor, coach, and develop junior and senior software, quality, and reliability engineers.
• Ensure compliance with secure software development guidelines and best practices.
• Define, maintain, and report SLA, SLO, and SLIs meeting EFX engineering standards in partnership with the product, engineering, and architecture teams.
• Collaborate with architects, SRE leads, and other technical leadership on strategic technical direction, guidelines, and best practices.
• Drive up-to-date technical documentation including support, end-user documentation, and run books.
• Responsible for implementation architecture decision-making associated with Product features/stories and refactoring work decisions.
• Create and deliver technical presentations to internal and external technical and non-technical stakeholders, communicating with clarity and precision, and presenting complex information in a concise, audience-appropriate format.

What experience you need

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• 5+ years experience writing, debugging, and troubleshooting code in mainstream Java and SpringBoot.
• 5+ years experience with Cloud technology: GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• 5+ years experience designing and developing cloud-native solutions.
• 5+ years experience designing and developing microservices using Java, SpringBoot, GCP SDKs, GKE/Kubernetes.

• 5+ years experience designing and developing big data processing solutions using Dataflow/Apache Beam, Bigtable, BigQuery, PubSub, GCS, Composer/Airflow, and others.

• 5+ years experience deploying and releasing software using Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, understanding infrastructure-as-code concepts, Helm Charts, and Terraform constructs.

What could set you apart

• Self-starter that identifies/responds to priority shifts with minimal supervision.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Strong leadership qualities.
• Demonstrated problem-solving skills and the ability to resolve conflicts.
• Experience creating and maintaining product and software roadmaps.
• Working in a highly regulated environment.
• Experience on GCP in Big data and distributed systems - Dataflow, Apache Beam, Pub/Sub, BigTable, BigQuery, GCS.
• Experience with backend technologies such as JAVA/J2EE, SpringBoot, Golang, gRPC, SOA, and Microservices.
• Source code control management systems (e.g., SVN/Git, Github, Gitlab), build tools like Maven & Gradle, and CI/CD like Jenkins or Gitlab.
• Agile environments (e.g., Scrum, XP).
• Relational databases (e.g., SQL Server, MySQL).
• Atlassian tooling (e.g., JIRA, Confluence, and Github).
• Developing with modern JDK (v1.7+).
• Automated Testing: JUnit, Selenium, LoadRunner, SoapUI.