Software Engineer II

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to every aspect of the software development lifecycle
• Architect a resilient system for a customer-facing web application from scratch
• Ensure systems are fully CI/CD and develop plans to achieve CI/CD if not already in place
• Drive innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development
• Debug production issues across services and technology stack
• Continuously measure and optimize the performance, effectiveness, and uptime of backend services
• Apply algorithms, data structures, and design patterns to build scalable and performant code
• Collaborate with team members to standardize methodologies, workflows, reusable modules, and tooling
• Participate in setting guidelines for evolving development practices and mentoring junior engineers
• Think creatively to solve problems that don't have existing solutions
• Conduct design and code reviews to improve engineering rigor and standards
• Participate in on-call rotations and operational excellence

Requirements

• BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience
• 3+ years of strong programming experience with backend technologies like Java and Python
• Proficiency in Computer Science fundamentals - object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, problem solving, and complexity analysis
• Hands-on engineering experience with significant time spent writing code or debugging issues
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Experience evaluating, measuring, and tuning application performance
• Experience with distributed SCM (GitHub a plus), DevOps, AWS
• Experience working across fully automated stacks in a CI/CD ecosystem
• Experience mentoring and training the engineering community on technical issues
• Strong analytical abilities and proven design skills & design patterns
• Experience designing, building, and deploying scalable, highly available systems

Nice to Have

• Experience in e-commerce
• Experience with Scrum, XP or other agile methodologies
• Good communication skills with both technical and business audiences
• Experience with cloud & orchestration technologies (AWS Services, Terraform, Ansible, etc.)
• Strong background with modern tools and environments (e.g., Chaos Engineering, web services, version control systems, bug/issue tracking tools)
• Experience with OpenAPI, Swagger, or stoplight.io
• Experience with configuration and deployment management via Terraform or Ansible
• Infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (e.g., shell, Python, Ruby, Powershell)
• Experience with data analysis/mining in large scale database environments

Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience