Staff Engineer - Java Backend

### **Key Areas of Responsibility**

• ### **Implement features and deliver production\-ready code**
• ### **Create technical documentation, system diagrams, and debugging reports**
• ### **Conduct performance optimizations and monitor key metrics**

### **Product Strategy, Vision, and Planning**

• ### **Participate in agile planning events by providing technical insights and feasibility analysis**
• ### **Collaborate with Product Owners, Designers, and Engineers to translate business needs into features and technical solutions**
• ### **Offer input on technology enhancements, emerging tools, and product gaps to inform the roadmap and backlog**
• ### **Support definition of acceptance criteria to guide development and testing**

### **Product Design and Development**

• ### **Design, develop, deploy, and maintain software solutions in an agile environment**
• ### **Write clean, scalable code aligned with best practices and engineering standards**
• ### **Collaborate with peers to implement user stories, resolve issues, and improve product functionality**
• ### **Engage in agile events such as daily scrums and product demos**
• ### **Create proof\-of\-concepts and run experiments to inform technical decisions**
• ### **Conduct peer code reviews for quality and knowledge sharing**
• ### **Continuously improve team processes and development workflows**
• ### **Stay current with emerging technologies, frameworks, and industry practices**

### **Performance Measurement and Optimization**

• ### **Monitor delivery metrics such as lead time and deployment frequency**
• ### **Identify and implement improvements to enhance delivery efficiency**

### **Basic Qualifications**

• ### **Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent**
• ### **12\+ years of experience in software development using Java**
• ### **Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, and concurrent programming**
• ### **Expertise in designing and troubleshooting transactional systems**
• ### **Experience with microservices architecture, Java EE, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Hibernate, Oracle, PostgreSQL, BigTable, BigQuery, NoSQL, Git, IntelliJ IDEA, Pub/Sub, Data Flow**
• ### **Experience in native and hybrid cloud environments and Agile development**
• ### **Proficient in Python or Java, multi\-tenant cloud technologies, and tools like Jira**
• ### **Skilled in translating user stories into scalable, user\-centric solutions**
• ### **Strong collaboration and communication skills for cross\-functional teamwork**
• ### **Analytical problem\-solver with attention to detail and structured thinking**
• ### **Experience with Java IDEs (Eclipse, IntelliJ), application servers (Tomcat), scripting languages (JSON, XML, YAML, Terraform), Git, Maven**

### **Preferred Qualifications**

• ### **Champion of Agile Scrum methodologies and SAFe frameworks**
• ### **Experience with CI/CD systems such as Jenkins or GitHub CI**
• ### **Deep understanding of secure solution design principles**
• ### **Familiarity with concurrent backend environments and multithreading**
• ### **Experience with tools or languages including Ruby, Python, Perl, Node.js, Bash, C, C\+\+, Spring, Oracle, Docker, Kubernetes**

### **Product Specific Qualifications / Skillsets**

• ### **Experience in account opening, loan originations system desirable**
• ### **Java, JEE, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Rest**
• ### **React, React Native, Redux**
• ### **Hibernate, JPA**
• ### **Postgres**
• ### **Kafka, Kafka Connect, Redis**

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