Senior Backend Engineer

Demand Science; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Demand Science is seeking a Backend Engineer to work on innovative product initiatives. The role involves building scalable services that enhance data quality, with a requirement for extensive experience in cloud applications and proficiency in languages such as Golang and Java. The position is hybrid, allowing for both remote work and occasional office visits, and offers competitive compensation based on qualifications.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in building and designing B2B SaaS applications.
• Experience with mobile and desktop application development desired.
• Expert in Core Java and micro-service architecture.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable services that power products and improve data quality.
• Design and build domain-driven APIs for internal and external use.
• Participate in agile ceremonies and contribute to team discussions.

Skills

Golang

Java

AWS

PostgreSQL

Redis

Job description

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We are DemandScience, a global company which never stops innovating in our mission to provide the healthiest and most predictive global B2B data and intelligence for our customers. Our clients include sales and marketing professionals at global companies. Excellent execution is in our DNA. We provide innovative AI-analytics merged with enriched data to identify your next in-market prospects and customers at scale.

If you are interested in joining DemandScience but don’t see a position you’d like to apply for, then please join our talent pool! We’re hiring strategically and would love to talk to YOU! Submit your resume and we’ll reach out to you as new opportunities arise.

As a Backend Engineer, you will be working on one or more of our new product initiatives. You will be responsible for building and maintaining scalable services that power our products and increase data quality measures. We are heavy on data. A lot of stuff will involve data manipulation and transmission on a big scale.

Employee must be able to come to the office once or twice a week.

Essential Job Functions “What You’ll Do” :

The following duties are listed in order of greater importance. Other responsibilities may be assigned.

• Build services and products that consistently deliver high-volume, low-latency high-availability, performance, reliability, security on the implementations.
• Identify the critical details and prioritize incremental delivery.
• Contribute to the design, implementation, and testing of new features.
• Actively participate and contribute in the requirements refinement discussion
• Review technical specifications and architecture diagrams created by the Architect/Principal
• Assist with change management, capacity planning and emergency response as an expert of the runtime environment and business logic behaviour.
• Coach / Mentor junior developers understand the architecture and technical specifications.
• Pair-program on complex items minimizing risk and enhancing exchange of skills.
• Write code based on coding best practices and standards set by the company and known in industry.
• Maintain good, automated testing coverage.
• Produce unit test as part of the development cycle to improve code quality.
• Participate and own were necessary deployment, monitoring of team’s product & alerting requirements and implementation.
• Participate in product support and bug fixing.
• Participate and actively contribute on all agile ceremonies, such as sprint refinement, planning, retrospective, …, including daily stand-ups.
• Share and implement ideas to help our teams move quickly.
• Translate non-technical and technical requirements to appropriate audiences.
• Recommend enhancements and propose innovative ideas and solutions.
• Design and build domain-driven APIs, for both internal and external usage.
• Design and build components in C#, Golang, and Java working closely with our backend platforms.

Essential Qualifications “What You’ll Need”:

• 5+ years of experience in building and designing enterprise, scalable, service-oriented cloud applications.
• B2B SaaS enterprise applications with a large user base.
• Experience with mobile and / or desktop application development.
• Proficiency in Golang, Snowflake PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS.
• Seasoned in commercial Java development experience.
• Expert in Core Java (JVM, collections, generics, functional programming…), Spring Framework and associated projects (Boot, Core, Data…)
• Well-versed in micro-service backend architecture.

This is a hybrid role where you’ll work both from home and from the local office, the specific days of the week in the office will be determined by your manager.

Eventual compensation offered will be based on factors such as the candidate’s qualifications, skills, experience and/ or training. Your recruiter can share more information about the specific salary range during the interview process.

Find out more at https://demandscience.com/careers/#join-the-team