What You’ll Need:

· Bachelor’s Degree (MIS or CS preferred) or equivalent work experience

· 5+ years of experience in an object-oriented language such as Java with 3+ years as hands-on Software Architect

· Minimum 5 years of software development in Java8/Spring Boot stack or Python/Django backend services

· Minimum of 3 years of cloud architecture and service development experience

· Hands-on experience leading the design, development and deployment of business software at scale or current hands on technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization experience

· Be a hands-on Engineer spending significant percentage of their time writing code or debugging tricky issues

· Knowledge of professional software engineering practices for the full software development life cycle including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

· Proficiency in Computer Science fundamentals – object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm - design, problem solving, and complexity analysis

· Experience mentoring and training the engineering community on complex technical issues

· Sharp analytical abilities and proven design skills & a working knowledge of design patterns

· Experience with designing, building and deploying scalable, highly available systems

· Have or (more importantly) be willing to learn deep domain knowledge in the area of retail e-commerce

Bonus (if applicable):

· Development experience with GraphQL services (client and server)

· Experience in e-commerce

· Experience with Scrum, XP or other agile methodologies a plus

· 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., JSON 3 API, 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 a plu