Lognormal Analytics - Senior Backend Developer - Java/PostgreSQL

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain APIs and capabilities for web services that power experimentation products
• Solve technical problems to improve our development process, increase our efficiency and unlock new business opportunities.
• Take initiative to improve existing solutions, challenge decisions, propose augmented alternatives and address technical debt.
• Contribute to technical discussion around software architecture and help the team to make decisions that are agile, incremental and beneficial for the long term
• Refactor and simplify code by introducing design patterns when necessary and guide more junior members of the team in this topic
• Systematically identify patterns and underlying issues in complex situations, and to find solutions by applying logical and analytical thinking
  

Skills

• Minimum of 5 years of software development experience; experience with Java
• Proven experience with MySQL/PostgreSQL/Cassandra or similar relational databases
• Experience with SOA
• Practical experience with APIs development, Graph QL & Kafka queues.
• Experience with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing paradigms.
• Experience with defining and upholding SLOs/KPIs
• Experience with experimentation, statistics and A/B testing is a plus
• Experience with building highly scalable distributed systems and batch processing pipelines is an advantage.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Preferably a university degree in Software Engineering or related field
• Excellent communication; written and spoken
• Experience in the insurance industry is a plus.
• Experience working with teams located in different timezones is a plus