Lead Backend Engineer to drive Innovation in the Hospitality Industry - remote

Posted 3 years ago

Elon Musk said it well, "Technology does not automatically improve. It only improves if a lot of people work very hard to make it better..."

We are seeking a backend engineer with 6+ years of experience building enterprise-scale and production-ready applications that will help the hospitality industry innovate. You will be part of a team that is responsible for building proof of concept technology marvels to wow stakeholders. Some ideas will fail, and some will succeed, but your measure of success will be based on the way you persevere with creative ideas translated into actionable technology solutions that prove an ROI.

And bonus points if you have full-stack capabilities as that might be needed on this team too!

Other details:

  • Play SME role for application development teams to help Cloud, API, and Microservices
  • Passion for software that is future-proof and sets an example for best practices
  • Obsessed with developer experience and tooling

*denotes must-haves

Skills

  • Working in an Agile process and product-first mindset*
  • Collaborating with leadership to build future-oriented POC apps and tools that provide a stellar developer experience
  • Significant experience developing enterprise RESTful APIs and Services
  • Drive Architectural decisions, governance policies for technical teams, and technical stack choices
  • Production experience building applications with cloud managed services (Azure)
  • Eager to learn new tools, technologies, and approaches
  • Ability to understand, analyze and map business flows from beginning to end of processes
  • Languages/frameworks

  • Expert-level Java proficiency*
  • Spring Boot*
  • Bash / Shell scripting for CI/CD pipelines
  • Tooling

  • Azure (REDIS, CosmosDB, Kusto, Event Hub, etc.)*
  • Apigee*
  • CI/CD Pipelines (Any of: Jenkins, CircleCI, Github Actions, etc.)
  • Github
  • To thrive as a member of our team, you must:

    • Available during business hours within PST (GMT-8)
    • Operate with an ownership mentality by taking initiative, being resourceful, and executing with passion
    • Have excellent verbal and written communications skills
    • Be a quick learner and be passionate about learning
    • Embody creativity, be honest, humble, mature, committed, and cultivate a positive culture