Remote Backend Java Engineer

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