Senior Backend Engineer

Our customer is the leading school transportation provider in North America, being the owner of more than a half of all yellow school buses in the United States. Every day, the company completes 5 million student journeys, moving more passengers than all U.S. airlines combined and delivers reliable, quality services for 1,100 school districts. 

N-iX has built a successful cooperation with the client delivering a range of complex initiatives. As a result, N-iX has been selected as a strategic long-term partner to drive the digital transformation on an enterprise level, fully remodeling the technology landscape for 55,000 employees and millions of people across North America. 

Responsibilities:

• Write quality, maintainable code with extensive test coverage in a fast-paced professional software engineering environment
• Promote best practices to improve the quality of our code and processes
• Research and evaluate technical options to implement business requirements
• Provide system or technical development expertise to the team
• Work in close contact with team members and project stakeholders
• Suggest technical and functional improvements to add value to the product and tackle technical debt

Requirements: 

• 3+ years of software development experience
• 2+ years of extensive Java development
• 1+ years of Node.js experience
• 1-2 years of Spring framework and building Spring web applications
• Understanding and experience developing and deploying microservices
• Experience developing integration layers (using REST interfaces, OpenApi, Kafka, GraphQL)
• Excellent design, coding, and debugging skills
• OOP, OOD, Design Patterns proficient
• Knowledge of relational databases (preferably PostgreSQL)
• Experience with AWS services (ECS, Lambda, Aurora)
• Would be a plus: Understanding of feature flagging, A/B testing, continuous release lifecycles, DynamoDB
• Would be a plus: Experience with AWS DMS service, DynamoDB
• Excellent communication and organization skills, product-oriented mindset, focus on team results, willingness to constant personal and team improvements
• Upper-Intermediate/Advanced English level