Software Development Engineer III (Backend)

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Why Join Us?

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We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a global hybrid work setup (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.

Software Development Engineer III (Backend)

Backend developer who will accelerate the adoption and development of EG Data Platform by developing tools for data movement.

What you’ll do:

• Team up with peers across the organization to build an understanding of cross dependencies and shared problem solving

• Share new skills and knowledge with team to increase effectiveness

• Understand the relationship between applications, databases and tech‐ nology platforms.

• Develop and test complex or non-routine software applications and re‐lated programs and procedures to ensure they meet design requirements

• Write code that is clean, maintainable, optimized, modular with good naming conventions. You will also use software frameworks to write simpler

• Coordinate bringing together different stakeholders with varied per‐ spectives to develop solutions to issues and contributes own suggestions

• Assist with a whole systems approach to analyzing issues by ensuring all components (structure, people, process and technology) are identified and accounted for

• Spot areas of inefficiency in code or systems operation and offer sug‐ gestions for improvements

• Compile and generate reports on major operational or technical initia‐ tives (like RCAs) to larger groups, whether via written or oral means

Who are you:

• Bachelor's or Master’s in a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience

• 6+ years of experience with Bachelor's degree

• A high performing individual contributor who acts as a mentor to more junior Engineers, applies new engineering principles to improve existing systems, and is responsible for leading complex, well-defined projects

• Worked on projects based on Java or Kotlin backend

• Good understanding of OOPS Concepts, SOLID Principles, Domain and DataModeling

• Designed and Created REST APIs for your projects

• Good understanding of Kafka, Kafka Connect, KStream

• Experience with Spark Streaming and/or Flink are a plus

• Demonstrates the ability to select among technology available to implementand solve for need

• Able to understand and design moderately complex systems

• Implemented code that uses both relational and non-relational datastores. You understand the difference between a data store and a cache and have experience using both

• Have a solid understanding of code promotion, CI/CD methodologies, and using Git for source control. Splunk / Datadog integration for logging / metrics

• Have experience working in an agile team environment conducting code walkthroughs, peer reviews, and producing user documentation

• Maintained projects in production environments (bug fixing, troubleshooting, monitoring etc.)

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