Hybrid Senior Software Engineer, Back End

at Favor Delivery

• Job title: Senior Software Engineer, Back End
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Docker, ElasticSearch, Java, Jenkins, JUnit, Kafka, Kotlin, Kubernetes, MySQL, PHP, Postgres, Scala, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Austin, United States

About the role

• Senior Software Engineer developing back-end applications for Favor’s logistics operations. Engaging with product and operations teams to deliver tools connecting customers, runners, and merchants.

Responsibilities

• Assist in research and fact finding to develop or modify applications.
• Fix bugs and perform updates to the code base while working closely with team members across product, design, and engineering.
• Participate in the planning and execution of development projects.
• Mentor less experienced engineers and help organize squad members around project goals.
• Partner with cross-functional technology teams to integrate solutions.
• Responsible for all phases of development, testing, and deployment of web applications, back-end services, databases, and data warehouse.

Requirements

• A related degree or comparable formal training, certification, or work experience.
• Knowledge of coding patterns and their applicable uses to write performant, testable code.
• 5+ years of relevant software engineering experience.
• Experience developing solutions within a system architecture such as SOA, Event-driven, or n-tier.
• Ability to design and build technical solutions without direct oversight.
• Ability to read through code and identify areas that may lead to bugs.
• Ability to identify and communicate potential issues early and significantly contribute to team discussions.
• Ability to write tests that cover most common use cases and code paths and use design patterns to design efficient, maintainable, and scalable features.
• Understanding of the performance impact of queries and ability to generate complex data structures.
• Ability to make updates to existing APIs by adding endpoints, changing responses, and handling errors following HTTP best practices according to RFC-7231.
• Experience or familiarity with one or more of PHP, Scala, Kotlin, Java, MySQL, Postgres, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Elasticsearch, JUnit, Jenkins.

Benefits

• premium health, vision, dental, and life insurance
• 401(k) options
• Favor delivery fee credit
• H-E-B discounts!
• unlimited PTO for salaried employees
• ample vacation time
• personal growth and education through Intern(al)ships and Learning Labs