Designs, builds, and supports scalable backend services, integrations, microservices, APIs, data pipelines, and cloud applications. Optimizes performance, reliability, and resource usage; addresses technical debt; develops automated tests; participates in Agile delivery, architecture, code reviews, CI/CD, and cross-functional collaboration.
Role Summary
As a Senior Engineer, you will design, build, and support critical integrations and applications across SOMS domain. You will contribute hands-on development expertise in Java, Spring Framework, and cloud technologies (Azure/GCP) while ensuring scalability, compliance, and performance. You will work in a hybrid team model (onshore + offshore), collaborating with SOMS SMEs, Enterprise architects, and contractors to deliver high-quality solutions that enable Easy experience for Staples Business customers.
Duties & Responsibilities
• Collaborate with DevOps, product, and other engineering teams to define requirements and deliver long-lasting technical solutions.
• Design, build, and maintain distributed and scalable backend services to support business-critical feature.
• Optimize system latency, throughput, and resource usage to support high performance under variable loads.
• Address technical debt by refactoring code and infrastructure and stay updated on emerging technologies and industry trends.
• Excellent verbal and written communications with the ability to establish effective working relationships with team members and cross functional teams.
• Develop comprehensive test plans and maintain automated test suites to ensure software robustness and minimize regressions.
Requirements
Basic Qualifications
• Possess 4 to 7 years of relevant professional experience.
• Demonstrate proficient programming skills in at least one modern language such as Java or Python.
• Strong expertise in system architecture and the development of highly available, fault-tolerant distributed applications optimized for performance and scalability in cloud environments.
• Proven experience working within Agile frameworks, contributing to technical design, iterative development, and conducting thorough code reviews.
• Well-versed in best practices for developing high-quality software, implementing continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Skilled in designing and implementing microservices using the Spring ecosystem, including Spring Boot, Spring JPA, Spring Batch, Spring Security, Spring Cloud, and Spring Data Stream.
• Hands-on experience managing distributed databases such as Azure CosmosDB, Couchbase, or MongoDB.
• Familiarity with relational database systems like Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL.
• Experience with distributed caching technologies such as Memcached, Redis, or Hazelcast to improve application performance.
• Competent in working with distributed messaging systems including Azure EventHub, Apache Kafka, and Solace to enable reliable communication and event handling.
• Ability to build and optimize production-quality data pipelines for both batch and stream processing to support large-scale data analytics and machine learning workloads.
• Proficient in using GitHub for version control and leveraging tools such as GitHub Copilot for code assistance and productivity enhancement.
• API development and maintenance skills: designing, implementing, and documenting RESTful, GraphQL, or SOAP APIs; version management and authentication (OAuth, JWT)
• Documentation: producing technical specifications, system architecture diagrams, and detailed API documentation for internal users.
Preferred Qualifications
• Proven experience taking an idea from inception to life with an ability to explore a variety of open-source technologies.
• Experience with developing, deploying, and launching software products on public cloud preferably Microsoft Azure and GCP.
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