Senior Microservices Developer

Title- Senior Microservices Developer
Location- Oakland, CA

Job InformationJob Taxonomy:Senior Software Engineer - 03460Job Title:Senior Microservices DeveloperJob Category:EngineerJob Description:The Software Engineer will help support and build the Modernized Microservices Applications Suite. Along with writing effective code, the position will be responsible for designing, building, delivering and maintaining a highly scalable set of products and applications. The incumbent will use industry best practices and work collaboratively with cross-functional team of product managers, architects, principal engineers, software engineers, test automation team and DevOPS engineers

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test and maintain microservices to support our consumer facing applications.
• Write highest quality code with utmost attention to scalability, security and performance. Use TDD and participate in code-reviews with other software engineers.
• Collaborate with DevOps team to setup the build and delivery pipeline. Add instrumentation and monitoring to support production environments. Build Docker containers and container management.
• Accurately scope effort, identify risks and clearly communicate trade-offs with team members and other stakeholders.
• Ship high quality products and features with an end-to-end mindset from conception to delivery and production support; owning specifications, quality, release deployments and monitoring of production health.

Skills/Experience:Minimum Qualifications

• 4 w/Bachelors degree

Additional Experience

• Experience designing and developing highly scalable and secure Applications and Products
• BS in computer science or equivalent technical field or equivalent work experience.
• MS is a plus.
• Experience with developing and deploying applications on Azure or similar cloud platform

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
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• Ability to understand business plans and apply that information into the development of an IT business case
• Anticipates problems, resistance or likely objections and takes action to resolve them
• Ability to guide, train and mentor associate engineers
• Highly skilled in developing quantitative cost/benefit analysis to measure improvements
• Proficient in organizational processes as well as capable of assessing and initiating change of such processes
• Demonstrates an in-depth knowledge and application of competency and can consult as well as lead others in its application
• Strong communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills
• Knowledge of agile development methodologies
• Ability to develop and maintain key vendor relationships with a focus on technology currency and best practices
• Life-long learner, process improver