Senior Software Engineer — Scalable Microservices (Java/Spring)

SquareTrade; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision coverage

401(k) with company match

Hybrid work in Dallas

Tuition reimbursement

Connectivity stipend

Job summary

SquareTrade in Dallas is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build and scale mission critical applications. You will work in a fast-paced Agile XP environment with pair programming and TDD, collaborating with engineering leads, product and design teams to deliver robust microservices and APIs.

The role emphasizes Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and cloud pipelines on AWS/Azure, with CI/CD and monitoring in production, and a strong focus on security and performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, Kafka and microservices.
• Hands-on experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) and writes high-quality, testable code.

Responsibilities

• Designs, develops, and maintains secure, scalable, and high-performance microservices and APIs using modern frameworks (e.g. Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, ElastiCache).
• Performs continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines on AWS and Microsoft Azure.
• Monitors in production and improves system performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Adopts XP methodology and practices paired programming and test-driven development (TDD) daily.
• Participates in daily standups, code reviews and retrospectives.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Kafka

Microservices

TDD

Pair programming

PostgreSQL

GitHub

Jenkins

CI/CD

AWS

Azure

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GitHub

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

Job description

SquareTrade in Dallas is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build and scale mission critical applications. You will work in a fast-paced Agile XP environment with pair programming and TDD, collaborating with engineering leads, product and design teams to deliver robust microservices and APIs.

The role emphasizes Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and cloud pipelines on AWS/Azure, with CI/CD and monitoring in production, and a strong focus on security and performance.