Senior Backend Java Engineer

Academic Level

BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject.

Description

Build is a Costa Rica based product-oriented and boutique software development company. We partner with our clients to become their product team, helping them from ideation to product launch. We commit to delivering quality, impactful, ground-breaking products that can realize our client's vision and make their life easier. We’re looking for developers who can work as a member of a distributed team to design, architect, and build system components. Our team works with many technologies, so our developers must be versatile throughout the stack and work to improve their skills continuously. We have an ever-growing roadmap comprised of interesting work throughout our platform’s stack and are searching for the right people to help us.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop back-end applications and data models to solve well-defined user needs.
• Proficient in assisting non-technical individuals in resolving complex production issues. 
• Work closely with stakeholders to assess technical proposals, map out potential implementation strategies, and actively drive the execution for successful implementation.
• Ability to multitask effectively and demonstrate adaptability in various situations.
• Design and implement features with performance and maintainability as strong considerations.
• Participate in defining development processes, including agile project management, continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD), and the release process.
• Work in an agile environment where we ship features frequently.
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Foster quality while building solutions, through extensive testing of your code
• Support tracking projects to schedule, budget, and scope, reporting status, issues, and risks to the project leadership team.
• Participate in deployment processes.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

Technical Skills

• 5+ years of experience working with Java environments.
• Experience working with Java 11 or higher.
• Strong experience working with Spring Boot.
• Experience working with Maven.
• Strong experience working with microservices architectures.
• Hands-on experience developing REST API architectures.
• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL, and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate).
• Experience writing unit and integration tests to ensure code quality and reliability. (JUnit, Mockito, Faker)
• Experience working in AWS, using services such as IAM, Lambdas, EC2, S3, SNS, and SQS.

Nice to Have

• Experience working with LocalStack.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipeline platforms, for example, Buildkite, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, etc.
• Familiarity with Terraform to support infrastructure creation.
• Experience working with database version control and schema migration tools, for example, Flyway, Liquibase, etc
• Experience implementing data mapping between different layers, for example, MapStruct.

Strategic Skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Team player.
• Experience working within agile environments.
• Experience working with larger / multiple teams to review and deliver code.

Benefits

• Optional 9/80 Work Schedule (Every other Friday off)
• Remote Work
• Unlimited Paid Time Off
• Private Health and Dental Insurance
• Work from Home (We also have a cool office)
• Learning Opportunities and New Technology
• Job Stability
• Excellent Team!
• And more...