Job description

Scentbird is constantly growing and in order to support this growth, we constantly need to improve the website and test new functionality. Our backend team has a wide range of tasks:

• Recommendations and personalization
• Payment functionality (new plans, special offers)
• Website SEO
• Performance updates
• Multi-region cloud support

We are looking for an experienced java engineer who will work alongside us on these projects.

What You'll Be Responsible For:

• Develop features and improvements to the Scentbird product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way
• Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment
• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance
• Solve technical problems of moderate scope and complexity.
• Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
• Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team ("technical debt"), propose and implement solutions
• Represent Scentbird and its values in public communication around specific projects and community contributions.
• Confidently ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects

What You'll Need to Have (required qualifications):

• Significant professional experience with Java or language required by the specialty, 7+ years experience
• Experience with GraphQL, SpringBoot
• Experience with PostgresQL 2+ years
• Experience with cloud providers Amazon AWS or similar
• Experience with Graphana/NewRelic or similar technologies
• Experience with SPA is a plus
• Experience with Kubernetes is a plus
• Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems JVM profiling, database profiling)
• Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process
• CI/CD experience
• TDD experience is a plus

What We'll Love About You (personality traits):

• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions
• Demonstrated ability to onboard and integrate with an organization long-term
• Positive and solution-oriented mindset
• Effective communication skills: Regularly achieve consensus with peers, and clear status updates
• An inclination towards communication, inclusion, and visibility
• Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work closely with other parts of the organization
• Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization