Sr. Backend Developer

What you will do:

• Work closely with product and business stakeholders to drive Product development
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of front-end and back-end components
• Deliver high-quality, scalable, and efficient software solutions
• Participate in scrum ceremonies and story writing sessions
• Perform regular code reviews
• Autonomously break down ambiguous work and plot a course of action
• Design and implement clean software for the frontend and backend codebases
• Quickly and efficiently debug application code
• Assume technical responsibility of various complex systems
• Write reusable, testable, principled code

What Cowbell needs from you:

• Proven experience (7+ years) as a backend engineer.
• Proven experience in designing RESTful APIs and implementing microservices architecture.
• 5+ years of experience in backend API development using Java 11+ and Spring Boot
• Strong architectural design skills, allowing you to translate problem statements into well-designed applications.
• Ability to effectively break down product requirements, analyze specifications, and decompose them into manageable tasks for development, ensuring a clear roadmap and successful implementation.
• An appreciation for clean, concise code
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities
• Hands on experience in Kafka for building scalable, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems
• Familiarity with relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., Postgres, Elasticsearch)