Backend Engineer - Yearbook Team

Job Description

Back-End Engineer - Yearbook Team

O.C. Tanner develops and maintains employee engagement programs that help companies drive cultures of great work. As part of that effort, we build large-scale, international, multi-million user web and mobile applications used by many of the prestigious Fortune 500 companies. We offer great medical and dental benefits, on-site dining, bonuses, paid time-off, tuition reimbursement, and a 401k plan that has been ranked one of the best in the nation.

We are looking for a highly skilled back-end engineer who is passionate about building products that help and delight people.

When you apply, please include a link to your portfolio, LinkedIn profile, Github profile or other examples of your work.

Responsibilities

Your primary job is to build REST and GraphQL API's. You'll accomplish this by authoring accessible, localized, performant, secure, standards-compliant, and well-tested computer code in Java, GraphQL, Kafka and other technologies that are deployed to the cloud. You will be asked to help to define, create and maintain the data structures required to feed our cloud services using relational databases like PostgreSQL, as well as support our existing products, and any other duties as assigned.

Job Requirements

Required Attributes

• 2+ years of demonstrable experience
• A team player, willing to offer knowledge and guidance to lift members of the team
• Advanced knowledge of data management issues including storage, secure transmission, encryption, and transactional behaviors
• Working knowledge and experience with Java, Spring Boot, Tomcat, OAuth 2.0, and GraphQL
• Experience with database technologies such as PostgreSQL and Oracle
• Experience with distributed systems within a Micro Service architecture
• Ability to quickly learn a new tool or library
• Quickly debug an application
• Strong communication skills

Preferred Attributes

• Worked on a team that does Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
• Built and managed large databases
• Experience with Docker
• Contributed to an open source project
• Worked on a large-scale, international, multi-million user app
• Experience with various mechanisms for Authentication and Authorization (Groups, Roles, Permissions)
• Messaging technologies such as Kafka
• Worked on delivering service APIs using GraphQL
• Worked with applications built using an asynchronous, message-driven design