[Hiring] Senior Back End Developer @Abalobi Solutions

Role Description

We are looking for an experienced Senior Back-End Developer to join a dynamic global technology environment and contribute to the development of innovative, cloud-native software solutions. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, deploying and operating production-ready backend applications within a distributed, highly scalable technology landscape.

This is an exciting opportunity for a senior technical professional who enjoys solving complex problems, working with modern cloud technologies and contributing to high-performing Agile development teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, deploy and operate production-ready backend applications.
• Develop scalable and resilient distributed systems and cloud-native applications.
• Design and implement RESTful APIs and backend services.
• Work with microservices and containerised architectures.
• Develop and maintain cloud-based solutions, with a strong focus on AWS.
• Implement automated deployment and configuration processes.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Apply secure software development practices and cloud-security patterns.
• Monitor applications and contribute to observability, logging and operational excellence.
• Participate in 24/7 production support and incident resolution when required.
• Identify technical risks, impediments and dependencies and proactively address or escalate them.
• Apply software architecture and design patterns to complex technical challenges.
• Implement comprehensive automated testing, including unit, integration and end-to-end testing.
• Produce technical and system documentation in accordance with required standards.
• Collaborate with customers, internal teams and external technology partners.
• Contribute to Agile and Scrum ceremonies and delivery activities.
• Share technical knowledge and mentor junior and intermediate team members.
• Continuously improve existing products, systems and technical processes.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of production experience in backend software development.
• Strong experience with one or more of the following:
  • Java – preferred
  • Python
  • JavaScript / TypeScript / Node.js
• Strong knowledge of Microservices Architecture.
• Experience with cloud-native solutions and container architectures.
• Proven experience designing, developing and operating distributed systems.
• Strong experience with AWS cloud technologies, preferably including:
  • Kubernetes
  • Serverless
  • API Gateway
  • CloudWatch
  • ECS
  • Lambda
  • OpenSearch
  • RDS
  • S3
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform.
• Strong experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience developing and managing CI/CD pipelines, preferably using GitHub Actions.
• Experience with automated deployment and system configuration.
• Experience with monitoring, observability and log analytics.
• Strong experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs.
• Strong Git experience.
• Knowledge of software design and architecture patterns.
• Understanding of secure software development practices.
• Strong automated testing experience, including:
  • Unit Testing
  • Integration Testing
  • End-to-End Testing
• Experience working within Agile and Scrum environments.

Advantageous Skills

• Apache Kafka and Kafka Streams
• Event-driven architecture and solutions
• Design and evaluation of efficient algorithms
• Complexity Theory
• Performance testing
• Performance tuning
• Experience with highly scalable and distributed applications