Backend Developer

Responsibilities

• Analyze user requirements to derive software design and performance requirements.

• Debug existing software and correct defects.

• Design and code new software or modify existing software to add new features.

• Write or review software and system documentation.

• Integrate existing software into new or modified systems or operating environments.

• Develop simple data queries for existing or proposed databases or data repositories.

• Software development using languages such as C, C++, Python, Ruby, Perl, JavaScript, etc.

• Has experience with agile development processes.

• Has experience with source code control systems, such as Git.

• Serve as team lead at the level appropriate to the software development process being used on

any particular project.

• Design and development of relational and non-relational database applications.

• Use of orchestration frameworks such as Spring and Kafka.

• Familiarization with queue management systems

• Develop or implement algorithms to meet or exceed system performance and functional

standards.

• Develop and execute test procedures for software components.

• Develop software solutions by analyzing system performance standards and conferring with

users or system engineers; analyzing systems flow, data usage and work processes; and

investigating problem areas.

• Modify existing software to adapt to new hardware or to improve its performance

• Design, develop, and modify software systems using scientific analysis and mathematical models

to predict and measure outcomes and consequences of design decisions

• Java development using the Eclipse IDE (Integrated Development Environment).

• Development of Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) applications

• Experience using collaboration and software development tools (ie. Atlassian).

• Software development using continuous integration practices

• Experience with container technologies (ie. Docker).

• Unix shell scripting

• Development of event driven or data driven analytics

• Development of cloud-based solutions and technologies.

• Design or implement complex algorithms requiring adherence to strict timing, system resource,

or interface constraints. Perform quality control on team products.

• Recommend and implement suggestions for improving documentation and software

development process standards.

• Oversee one or more software development teams and ensure the work is completed in

accordance with the constraints of the software development process being used on any

particular project.

• Confer with system engineers and hardware engineers to derive software requirements and to

obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements, and

interfaces.

• Coordinate software installation on a system and monitor performance to ensure operational

specifications are met.

• Recommend new technologies and processes for complex software projects.

• Serve as the technical lead of multiple software development teams.

• Select the software development process in coordination with the customer and system

engineering.

• Ensure quality control of all developed and modified software.

• Delegate programming and testing responsibilities to one or more teams and monitor their

performance.