Senior Backend Engineer, Commerce - Lead Scalable Payments

Global Sports Jobs Limited; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

A great place to work.

Fast-track growth opportunities.

Job summary

Discovery's Commerce group in Global Tech is seeking a senior backend engineer to lead design and development of major functional changes across backend services. You will own system design, drive engineering standards, and mentor junior engineers in a fast-paced environment.

Qualified candidates have 5–8 years in Java or JVM languages, deep Docker/Kubernetes/AWS experience, and a track record shipping high-performance, scalable systems.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Java or other JVM languages with 5–8 years of total experience.
• Experience and deep understanding of Docker, Kubernetes and AWS.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems challenges, micro-service-based architectures and asynchronous communication, for example using gRPC and Kafka.
• Ability to implement alerting, metrics and logging using tools such as Prometheus, CloudWatch, Kibana and PagerDuty.
• Practical knowledge of persistence and caching solutions such as PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch and Caffeine.
• Familiarity with asynchronous, non-blocking, functional/reactive styles of programming, with hands-on experience of frameworks such as Spring WebFlux, Vert.x or Node.js.
• Track record of having built multiple high-performance, stable and scalable systems that have been successfully shipped to customers in production.

Responsibilities

• Drive best practices and set engineering standards for the team, providing guidance on design, coding and operational best practices and proactively creating them where none exist.
• Act as a key influencer in the team's strategy and contribute significantly to team planning.
• Show good judgement in making trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs.
• Take ownership of work and consistently deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
• Play a leading role in designing and developing major functional changes to existing software systems, or new ones, involving other engineers.
• Troubleshoot production issues by reviewing source code, logs, operational metrics and stack traces to pinpoint and resolve problems, identifying root causes and applying the learnings to improve both development processes and system design.
• Make high-impact decisions driving how and what software gets built.
• Mentor junior engineers, overseeing their designs, code quality and integration into a team.
• Lead collaboratively and with an open mind, sharing knowledge, holding a strong point of view and helping to tie-break key technical decisions so that other engineers and team members become more productive.
• Champion data-driven decision-making, curiosity and innovation to solve difficult problems and produce delightful customer experiences.

Skills

Java

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Distributed systems

Kafka

gRPC

PostgreSQL

Redis

ElasticSearch

Spring WebFlux

Reactive programming

Tools

Prometheus

CloudWatch

Kibana

PagerDuty

Job description

Discovery's Commerce group in Global Tech is seeking a senior backend engineer to lead design and development of major functional changes across backend services. You will own system design, drive engineering standards, and mentor junior engineers in a fast-paced environment.

Qualified candidates have 5–8 years in Java or JVM languages, deep Docker/Kubernetes/AWS experience, and a track record shipping high-performance, scalable systems.