Backend Engineer

You will be working for the Shaip Backend team. Working in an agile development environment the candidate will work with cross-functional teams of QA, FrontEnd, Integration, BA, and DevOps to perform tasks for Shaip products.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Participate in the design and implementation of essential applications
• Demonstrate expertise and add valuable input throughout the development life cycle
• Help design and implement scalable, lasting technology solutions
• Review current systems, suggesting updates as needed
• Gather requirements from internal and external stakeholders
• Test and debug new applications and updates
• Resolve reported issues and reply to queries in a timely manner
• Develop and utilize technical change documentation
• Strive to deploy all products and updates on time
• Help improve code quality by implementing recommended best practices
• Remain up to date on all current best practices, trends, and industry developments
• Maintain a high standard of work quality and encourage others to do the same
• Help junior team members grow and develop their skills
• Identify potential challenges and bottlenecks in order to address them proactively

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or relevant field
• Java certification preferred
• Excellent working knowledge of Java and J2EE technologies
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Familiarity with build tools such as Ant, Maven, and Gradle
• Significant experience working with SQL and HTML
• Familiarity with concepts of MVC and RESTful
• Experience with database usage and management
• Experience with Spring development
• Should have good logical and analytical skills
• Should have extraordinary out-of-box thinking ability