Remote Backend Java Engineer

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Hiring Remotely in Toronto, ON, CAN
In-Office or Remote
Senior level
HR Tech • Information Technology
The Role
Develop and maintain scalable backend applications in Java, collaborating with product management and engineering teams. Responsibilities include designing high-performance systems, writing and reviewing code, testing applications, addressing performance and concurrency issues, implementing caching and state management, configuring environments, and establishing software development best practices.
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Remote Backend Java Engineer (contract)
Client: Retail Technology Company (Pricing & Promotions)
Duration: 6 months
Timezone: PST
Overview
Our client is a large, fast-growing technology company in the retail space, serving millions of customers and a broad network of retail and brand partners. The team is building products that sit at the center of how people shop every day, and is looking for engineers who want their work to have real-world impact at scale.
This role sits within the client's pricing and promotions business, which builds an AI-powered platform used by global consumer brands and retailers to optimize pricing in response to market conditions and get a higher return on promotional spend. Its solutions deliver measurable margin and sales volume improvements for leading consumer goods companies and retailers.
                                                                         
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to quickly hit the ground running and have impact on our core products. As part of our remarkably high performing, collaborative team of engineers, you will be involved in everything from product decisions to implementation details. With strong team support, significant freedom and self-direction, you will experience the wealth of interesting, challenging problems. If this sounds like you’d be interested in, we’d love to hear from you!
Who You Are
You have a strong ability to self-regulate and problem solve through obstacles in a dynamic, fast-paced environment; maintains realistic estimations and escalates proactively when necessary
You attack challenging and abstract problems by breaking them down into smaller problems, coming up with hypotheses, and proving or disproving them in a systematic way
You are excited and enthusiastic about the prospect of tackling challenging problems
You connect your code to the business problems being solved and translate effectively across business and technical boundaries
You’re motivated to learn about and impact a new market
Your Qualifications
BS or BA in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience
5+ years of software development experience; object-oriented design skills and knowledge of website design and usability
Strong Java skills Solid SQL experience
Experience delivering enterprise software strongly preferred
Experience diagnosing and fixing performance, scalability, and concurrency issues, both in the application and in the database, strongly preferred
Experience in Hibernate and/or Spring preferred
Experience with Google Cloud, Kubernetes, and Gradle are nice-to-have
What You’ll Do
You will work in fast-paced environment to help generate ideas and quickly turn them into robust, well-tested, functioning code (including but not limited to Java)
You will work with product management to define and prioritize future functionality
You will operate in a modified scrum environment where we spec, estimate, and divide up work as a team and then manage ourselves independently
You will peer review other engineers’ code to help identify bugs, performance issues, security issues, and provide feedback on code cleanliness
You will play a key role in the development of best practices in software design, implementation, and coding standards
You will produce exemplary code and deliver completed projects in the time promised
You will perform unit and system level testing on their application and all affected systems
You will implement all aspects of an application design including but not limited to: high-performance design, coding, caching mechanisms, state management, error logging, scalability, environment configuration, proper testing procedures, naming standards and all other aspects of good application design and development
 

Skills Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of software development experience
  • Strong Java skills
  • Solid SQL experience
  • Object-oriented design skills
  • Knowledge of website design and usability
  • Enterprise software delivery experience
  • Experience diagnosing and fixing application and database performance, scalability, and concurrency issues
  • Experience with Hibernate and/or Spring
  • Experience with Google Cloud, Kubernetes, and Gradle
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The Company
HQ: Santa Clara, CA
638 Employees
Year Founded: 2009

What We Do

IntelliPro Group Inc. is one of the fastest growing IT services and HR solutions companies in Americas & APAC. We provide comprehensive IT services to help clients with IT Strategic Planning, Implementation, Deployment, IT Support on Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Mobile Application Development, Data Mining and Business Intelligence, Enterprise Data Warehouse, and more. Besides our established IT services, our new business now is quickly extending to one-stop HR Solution Services, including Oversea Branch Setup Consulting, Compensation & Benefits Policy Consulting, Payroll Management Service, Talent Recruiting, and Employer Branding to satisfy our clients’ fast business expansion requirement. We have built our business on our company-wide commitment to continually overdeliver on the high expectations of our clients, employees, and business partners. The secret to our success is that our unified team works harder, faster, smarter, and more collaboratively than anyone else in the talent acquisition business. In addition to the immense talent and proprietary technology, IntelliPro Group is proud to offer continual professional development and extraordinary benefits to both consultants and full-time employees.

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