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Senior Software Engineer – C, Java, Kafka
Location
Washington
Posted
120 days ago
Salary
$121.5K - $145.5K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Software Engineer – C, Java, Kafka
WEX
• Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable, and high-performance object oriented code in our backend services • Develop public REST APIs using Java and internal gRPC APIs for inter-service and inter-system communication • Craft systems designs, lead design decisions, and drive alignment with other senior engineers • Write automated unit tests, integration tests, end-to-end tests, concurrency tests, load/performance tests • Analyze existing systems to identify bottlenecks, tech debt, and implement scalability, and stability improvements • Implement automation for testing, monitoring, healing, and scaling applications, continuous integration and deployment to reduce time to market • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and other engineers, to define and implement new features • Conduct code reviews (comment, approve, seek revisions, merge), mentor junior and mid-level engineers, and actively promote engineering best practices • Dive deep and troubleshoot complex issues, devise fixes, author root cause analysis documents, and ensure lasting performance and reliability • Conduct objective and comparative analyses of competing technologies to advise the team of pros and cons of a technology solution • Maintain robust documentation (design docs, run books, change management docs, and readiness plans) • Provide live-site support for production applications by monitoring systems, ensuring rapid incident resolution, and driving continuous improvement • Drive cross-team projects as a single-threaded-owner (STO) or tech lead, and actively unblock other engineers to make progress
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering
- 5-8 years of professional experience in software engineering
- Strong Experience in C, Java, Kafka
- Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms, object-oriented design, and problem-solving skills
- Expertise in designing and developing internet-scale services with scalability, availability, security, and reliability design tenets
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and a collaborative and empathetic mindset
- Proficiency in backend development, with proficiency expertise in Java or C#, and frameworks like SpringBoot, building and optimizing RESTful APIs, ODATA framework, and SQL
Benefits
- health, dental and vision insurances
- retirement savings plan
- paid time off
- health savings account
- flexible spending accounts
- life insurance
- disability insurance
- tuition reimbursement
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