Backend Engineer at MacTay Consulting

Job Summary

• The Backend Engineer is responsible for writing web services and APIs which are consumed by client applications, which may vary from web / mobile applications to embedded systems.

Job Responsibilities

• Be involved and participate in the overall application lifecycle.
• Have solid knowledge of at least one server-side programming language e.g PHP, JavaScript (Node), e.tc. Focus on coding and debugging.
• Collaborate with Front-end and mobile developers.
• Define and communicate technical and design requirements.
• Provide training, help, and support to other team members.
• Build high-quality reusable code that can be used in the future.
• Develop functional and sustainable web applications with clean codes.
• Troubleshoot and debug applications.
• Learn about new technologies.
• Stay up to date with current best practices.
• Conduct UI tests and optimize performance where necessary.
• Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve applications.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary team of designers, developers, and system administrators.
• Participate in conferences and educational programs.
• Follow new and emerging technologies.

Requirements

• 3 - 4 years of recent hands-on coding and software design.
• Bachelor’s Degree or more in Computer Science or a related field.
• A track record of projects completed on time - you are a flawless executor, not a procrastinator.
• You find satisfaction in a job well done and want to solve head-scratching challenges.
• Experience with all phases of the software development life cycle, best practices, and Agile Software Development.
• Solid OOP and software design knowledge - you should know how to create software that’s extensible, reusable and meets desired architectural objectives.
• A strong familiarity of Web Server technologies including NGINX, Apache and J2EE.
• Experience with Java or Ruby, and the willingness to learn new technologies (Experience with other object-oriented languages is okay too, but our code is Java, Ruby and Scala, so you should be able to get up-to-speed on at least one of them quickly.
• Establish Back-End Software Engineer best practices.
• Work autonomously, are excited by new technologies, and will never back down from the challenges of scale.
• Experience with Linux/Unix and scripting languages like Python, Perl, shell scripting, etc.
• Knowledge in database systems and NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB.
• Experience deploying machine learning models is a plus.