Lead Backend Engineer – Java

This remote role is based in Costa Rica and only open to citizens and permanent residents of Costa Rica who do not need visa sponsorship. 

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

Description 

ImagineX Studio - Costa Rica is a 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 the definition of development processes, including agile project management, continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD), 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. 

Technical Skills 

• 7+ years of experience working with JVM environments, ideally Java.
• Experience working with Java 8 or above.
• Strong experience working with Spring framework.
• Experience working with Maven or Gradle.
• 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 with test-driven development, tools like JUnit, Cucumber, etc.
• Experience working in AWS services.
• Experience working with Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD processes.

Nice To Have 

• Experience developing backend applications using Kotlin and Micronaut framework, or willingness to learn.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipeline built in GitHub Actions.
• Familiarity with Terraform and/or CloudFormation to support infrastructure creation.
• Experience with applications integrated with Kafka.
• Experience implementing Cloud monitoring with Datadog.

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) .
• 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....