Backend Intermediate

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Description

Viafoura partners with over 600 media brands to engage, convert, and monetize their digital audiences. With best-in-class engagement and content moderation solutions — including real-time conversations, live blogs, community chat, personalization tools and AI-powered moderation — Viafoura helps companies create active, civil, and loyal online communities. Advanced data analytics also offer customers access to unique and valuable insights into their audience’s behaviors and preferences.

We’re a dynamic and innovative team, building a global, distributed, real-time platform that handles thousands of events per second. We utilize technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, Java, MySql, Kafka, OpenSearch, and more.

We’re looking for an Intermediate Java Software Engineer who is passionate about code craftsmanship, continuous improvement, and agile development. You will be creating elegant solutions to complex, real-world challenges. You will be working closely with a highly-collaborative team to implement business solutions and modernize our platform.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about doing things right, not just about getting them done.

Experience

4 to 6 years experience in professional Java development

Responsibilities

Work closely with a cross-functional, agile team, developing our backend services in response to business and engineering needs
Participate in code reviews and contribute to continuous improvement of our development processes.
Develop scalable software artifacts that are easy to understand and simple to maintain
Adhere to and advocate for best practices
Contribute to development of our Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment system
Contribute to development of system monitoring and alerting solutions
Contribute to the continuous modernization and migration of our system to use new, state-of-the-art solutions

Qualifications

4 to 6 years of full-time Java back-end development experience (other JVM language experience is a plus)
Experience with Linux or Unix environments
Experience with AWS preferred, other cloud vendors (GCP, Azure..) acceptable
Experience in writing Tests using Junit or similar libraries
Experience with RESTful APIs
Experience with API tools like Swagger or OpenAPI
Experience with Gradle, Maven, Jenkins, Git
Experience with Agile delivery methodology
Proven experience using RDBMS
Well-versed in Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
Knowledge of high throughput and low latency, asynchronous systems
Familiar with Microservices architecture
Knowledge of Design Principles, Design Patterns, code refactoring, Domain-Driven Design
Familiar with Service-Oriented Architecture, Layered/Onion/Hexagonal/Ports-and-Adapters application architecture
Familiar with Java frameworks like Vert.x or Spring Webflux, KafkaStreams, Guice, etc.
Experience with Java multi-threading and concurrency
Experience with a scripting language such as Python, Ruby, etc.
Experience with creating metrics, dashboards, and alerts

Nice to haves

Experience with Kafka, Elasticsearch/Open Search
Experience with kubernetes, helm, docker for cloud deployments
Appreciation for performance optimizations, especially in latency-sensitive (millisecond scale) environments
Experience with other languages such as PHP, Python, JavaScript, Bash, or Terraform
Experience with a functional language
Experience mentoring team members