Sr Staff Software Engineer (SaaS, Java, Microservices)

Scope:

• Core responsibilities to include analyze business requirements and designs for accuracy and completeness. Develops and maintains relevant product.
• Helps the team get better technically and grows the organization and its individuals, in particular:
• Inspires fellow engineers to become better at their craft and gives practical advice on writing cleaner code and effective tests.
• Actively identifies and reduces complexity in the software artifacts and motivates team members to do the same.
• Helps other team members to come up with simpler, more robust, and more efficient designs.
• Inspires confidence in less experienced team members to grow by tackling hard problems, knowing they can rely on support and guidance.
• Stimulates associates to look beyond the surface and fix the root causes rather than symptoms.
• Evolves the hiring culture in the team, identifies skill gaps, and actively shapes job openings to ensure foreseeable requirements can be met in the future.
• Propagates a multi-layered approach to information security and brings potential attack vectors to the team's awareness.
• Has a head start on becoming an expert on upcoming topics by continuously

Our current technical environment:

• Software: Java, Spring Boot, Gradle, GIT, Hibernate, Rest API, OAuth , Snowflake
• Application Architecture: Scalable, Resilient, event driven, secure multi-tenant Microservices architecture
• Cloud Architecture: MS Azure (ARM templates, AKS, HD insight, Application gateway, Virtue Networks, Event Hub, Azure AD)
• Frameworks/Others: Kubernetes, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Spark, NOSQL, RDBMS, Spring Boot, Gradle GIT, Ignite

What you’ll do:

• Designs services to be self-healing and to offer self-service capabilities from the ground up to achieve minimum manual intervention. 
• Seeks out the root cause of incidents and inspires improvements in a blameless fashion.
• Strives for smooth migration paths, in particular for breaking changes.
• Considers operational costs even in early design stages and incorporates it as a factor into the decision-making process.

• Leads by example.
• Actively shares knowledge in their field of expertise, e.g., by contributing to open source software projects, offering training sessions, holding conference presentations, etc.
• Shares innovative ideas with others and jointly develops prototypes and proofs of principles for demonstration.
• Reflects on how the team works towards delivering value and actively improves processes within their team.
• Is perceived as a subject matter expert in one or more product areas with a broad general knowledge, and others happily leverage their experience.
• Understands the impact of partner enablement on the growth of the company and evolves products into a direction that supports this at scale.
• Understands customer value and slices/writes user stories accordingly to deliver value faster.
• Includes stakeholders as early and often as sensible to maximize the value delivered.
• Quantifies impact and values of features to inform prioritization of issues and secure necessary budgets.
• Identifies the value of refactoring opportunities and uses this for prioritization with other issue types.
• Supports team management in prioritizing backlog items.
• Intuitively understands the team's problem domain and how it relates to other teams and products.
• Reaches out to other teams to further mutual alignment with the company vision.
• Works on aligning roadmaps of multiple teams towards achieving the company vision.
• Clearly communicates impediments to commitments and prefers practical alternatives over plainly saying "no".

What we are looking for:

• 14+ Yrs of Demonstrable experience with microservices based architecture on Cloud at scale.
• Experience with Big data technologies and databases like Snowflake, Scala, Spark etc
• Experience with implementation of Event driven architecture using Kafka, Spark or similar technologies
• Hands-on development skills along with architecture/design experience; should not have moved away from software development
• Demonstrable experience, thorough knowledge and interests in Cloud native architecture, Distributed micro-services, Multi-tenant SaaS solution and Cloud Scalability, performance and High availability
• Experience with API management platforms & providing / consuming RESTful APIs
• Experience with varied tools such as Spring Boot, OAuth, REST, GraphQL, Hibernate, NoSQL, RDBMS, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, React.
• Experience with DevOps, Infrastructure as Code and infrastructure automation.
• Good Understanding of secure architectures, secure configuration and identity management.

Our Values

If you want to know the heart of a company, take a look at their values. Ours unite us. They are what drive our success – and the success of our customers. Does your heart beat like ours? Find out here: Core Values

Diversity, Inclusion, Value & Equality (DIVE) is our strategy for fostering an inclusive environment we can be proud of. Check out Blue Yonder's inaugural Diversity Report which outlines our commitment to change, and our video celebrating the differences in all of us in the words of some of our associates from around the world.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.