Back End Engineer

Company: Bluehawk Consulting
Location: Seattle
Posted on: August 7, 2022

Job Description:

Seattle, WA / Remote

Bluehawk Consulting is seeking a Back End Engineer to support one of the world's largest online travel shopping companies for consumer and small business travel.

Do you want to transform the experience of millions of travelers the world over? Do you love working with a creative engineering team in building a critical delivery platform? This is a great opportunity to work among a strong team of engineers crafting mission critical components for the ecommerce transaction stack.

Project Overview

As a Back End Engineer, you will propose, prototype, design and implement core components of the ecommerce platform. Developers of the team provide the thought leadership and technical expertise needed to overcome hard problems.

Responsibilities

• Team up with peers across the team to build an understanding of cross dependencies and shared problem solving.
• Participate in a community of practice to share and gain knowledge.
• Share new skills and knowledge with the team to increase efficiency.
• Understand the relationship between applications, databases, and technology platforms.
• Write code that is clean, maintainable, optimized, modular with good naming conventions. You will also use software frameworks to write simpler code.
• Lead/clarify code evolution in code reviews.
• Find opportunities to streamline policies and processes across the organization.
• Spot areas of inefficiency in code or systems operation and offer suggestions for improvements.
• Compile and generate reports on major operational or technical initiatives (like RCAs) to larger groups, whether via written or oral means.
  Requirements
  
  • Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience.
  • Professional, post-college, software development experience with Java, Scala, or a similar object-oriented language. Ideal skill set is a mix of Java/Kotlin, AWS, REST, gRPC and Document Storage experience.
  • Experience building large-scale cloud infrastructure applications or similar experience.
  • Capable of leading complex technical projects that drive alignment and consensus across multiple functional areas.
  • Have the skills to work well and communicate within a distributed team.
  • Dedicated to delivering high-quality, optimized code for a distributed architecture capable of servicing millions of requests per second.
  • Passionate about driving the future forward, creating inclusive team environments, and leveling up engineering teams.
    Our Diverse and Inclusive Culture
    
    Bluehawk Consulting is a Kirkland, Washington-based management consulting firm helping Fortune 500 clients improve their performance, increase their efficiency, and enhance organizational value while reducing costs.
    
    We are a team who love to accomplish great things together!
    
    We excel at hiring talented people who are driven to create solutions for our client's most challenging projects. Uniting amazing talent with meaningful work experiences is our passion; fostering an environment that embraces individuality and unique gifts embodies our values and fuels our purpose.
    
    We Value
    
    • Our diverse team, they make us great!
    • Consultative, client-focused, and interactive approaches
    • Innovation, actualizing potential, and a positive outlook towards change and accepting challenges
    • Learning, listening, and communicating openly with respect
    • Passion, energy, zeal - we have lots of it
    • Humor, lightness, and flexibility
      We work hard to create a supportive environment, where employees enjoy a very competitive pay and benefits package, including an optional, full-benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, 401K, holidays and paid-time-off (PTO). Bluehawk also provides training opportunities and rewards leadership, diligence and the desire to achieve more.
      
      Bluehawk is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.
      
      If this sounds like a place you'd like to learn more about, visit us at www.bluehawkconsulting.com
      

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