Back-end Team Lead at Upwork

This is an engagement through Upwork’s Hybrid Workforce Solutions (HWS) Team. Our Hybrid Workforce Solutions Team is a global group of professionals that support Upwork’s business. Our HWS team members are located all over the world.

Are you a Lead Software Engineer who is passionate about design and building highly performant, robust systems to create outstanding user experiences and helping impact the professional lives of millions of independent professionals and clients around the world? Do you relish solving important problems? Do you enjoy identifying potential scalability issues, implementing solutions that follow engineering standard methodologies, and coming up with creative solutions to both technical and product challenges? If so, we’d love to hear from you!

This is a long-term contract position.

Your responsibilities:

• you will be working with Engineering teams, Product Managers, and Designers to build outstanding products for our users!
• our setup requires collaborative work which includes code reviews and writing supporting documentation;
• you’ll share the ownership of our code domain and will actively work to increase its quality and reduce technical debt.

Required skills:

• 8+ years of backend development experience using Java;
• 3+ years of tech leadership experience;
• solid knowledge of HTTP and REST;
• experience in writing well-structured, easily maintainable unit tests (such as JUnit, Mockito, etc);
• experience with relational databases;
• proven ability to collaborate with a large, distributed team of engineers over documentation and code;
• Upper-Intermediate or Fluent English;
• have a desire to learn new technologies and continually develop your professional skills;
• have a value for simplicity and scalable software engineering.

Nice to have:

• experience building high load web-applications and solving scalability issues;
• experience in building e-commerce products;
• comfortable working with AWS.

Upwork is proudly committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce. We never discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.