We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer - Backend (Java). As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be responsible to design and develop highly scalable, available, reliable, secure, and fault-tolerant systems with minimal guidance. Also, you will work with the Head of Engineering and overall backend teams to design & execute the engineering roadmap.

Responsibilities:

• Work cross-functionally with the Product, Design, Operations, and Backend teams across the squads to ship world-class products and features with minimal guidance.
  
• Design and develop highly scalable, available, reliable, secure, and fault-tolerant systems with minimal guidance.
  
• Write code that's clear, concise, performant, tested, and easily understood by others.
  
• Actively mentor associate software engineers in the team.
  
• Partner with the product management team to execute the feature roadmap.
  
• Work with the Head of Engineering and overall backend teams to design and execute the engineering roadmap.
  
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
  
• Help debug production issues across services and levels of the stack

Minimum Qualifications:

• Strong software engineering skills in Java with a good understanding of its ecosystems
  
• Solid understanding of algorithms, algorithmic complexities, OOP, design patterns, and clean code.
  
• Ability to estimate and execute releases with a good degree of predictability.
  
• Ability to scope, review and refine user stories and/or tasks for technical completeness and to alleviate dependency risk.
  
• Good in business acumen, excellent problem skills, and broad understanding of software and system design.
  
• Experience in handling or scaling a system that handles high traffic/large data sets/high concurrency.
  
• Experience in CI/CD like Jenkins/Gitlab CI/Travis CI/TeamCity and related technologies is a plus.
  
• Technical leadership experience is a plus.
  
• Knowledge and experience in migrating a monolith to service-oriented architecture is a plus.
  

We are looking for Staff Software Engineers who can lead the technical vision, roadmap, and execution for product engineering teams. Within the engineering team at Flip, you will be working with passionate engineers focused on delivering great product features, services, and platform components at a healthy pace and with high standards of quality. You will work on rapidly evolving backend systems as well as deal with interesting engineering problems such as developing new services and APIs for upcoming features as well as handling scale while managing data consistency.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the technical vision and direction for engineering within individual teams.
  
• Work closely with the product, design, operations, and engineering teams across the squads to ship world-class products and features.
  
• Work with mobile and web, SRE, and QA engineers to collaborate on end-to-end feature development and improvements.
  
• Design and develop highly scalable, reliable, secure, and fault-tolerant systems. Define and execute the long-term strategy around backend platforms and data stores within individual teams.
  
• Drive best practices around writing code, engineering processes, and system design with a focus on engineering excellence. Inspire engineers by following the right standards in software development and leading by example.
  
• Provide mentorship to software engineers in the team including senior backend engineers.
  
• Partner with the product management team to execute the feature roadmap. Ensure appropriate estimations around effort and capacity for the entire team.
  
• Conduct and participate in design discussions for solutions across teams. Also, share knowledge to engineers by writing articles, conducting sharing sessions.
  
• Work with the engineering leadership to execute the engineering improvements roadmap.
  
• Provide technical guidance and take ownership of debugging production issues across services.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience as a software engineer working on backend systems and 2+ years of experience with product engineering for consumer-scale systems
• Previous experience working in a technical lead role will be an added bonus.
• Strong software engineering foundation, including problem-solving, coding, and execution.
• Strong programming skills in mainstream languages like Go, PHP, Java, Python, etc. Ability to write well-designed, testable, and maintainable code.
• Ability to estimate and execute releases with a high degree of predictability.
• Ability to develop the technical roadmap at the Epic/project level as well as navigating unknown problem areas and breaking them down for the team.
• Experience working in an agile environment and in teams practicing DevOps.
• Experience in scaling a system that handles high traffic/large data sets/high concurrency.
• Strong communication skills. Proactive in driving various initiatives and processes for the team as well as communicating with various stakeholders.