Backend Developer(Java, GO)

Company: ALTEN
Location: San Jose
Posted on: February 18, 2025

Job Description:

Title: Backend Developer (Java, GO)
Location: Remote (Preferred 1 on EST and 1 on PST)

Job Description:
Service Engineer Backend Developer

Primary responsibilities:

• Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability of production systems.
  
• Serve as primary POC for LiveOps/GCX to address service incidents and troubleshoot/triage as appropriate. Work with the core engineering team to address bugs and deploy services across different environments.
  
• Collaborate with infrastructure teams to scale for service capacity and traffic spikes of 20x normal load during T1 events.
  
• Provide recommendations for architecture and process improvements.
  
  
  Secondary responsibilities:
  Create and maintain service health dashboards to monitor production systems. Implement alarms where there are gaps in service health monitoring. Maintain and update eBay Live SOP.
  
  Requirements:
  
  
• Experience with modern programming languages, e.g. Java, Go, C++.
  
• Experience in building large, reliable, scalable distributed systems.
  
• Experience with building event-driven applications.
  
• Experience with designing and building RESTful APIs.
  
• Experience with modern DevOps principles and continuous delivery.
  
• Work closely with colleagues and customers in different functional groups and remote offices.
  
• Hands-on experience with GraphQL is a big plus.
  
• Experience on web socket is a big plus.
  
  
  How does this project impact the line of business or eBay as a whole?
  eBay Live - provide livestreaming experience in the eBay app. Normally eBay can have issues but streaming needs to mitigate issues quickly. Provide support for the live sellers and buyers and help identify the issue and resolve. Less on the feature dev side more on the bug fix and provide that support. Looking for backend and service development side in terms of past experience. Identify root cause of issue then provide the fixes/resolutions - could also help the team evolve the monitoring alerting process/system.
  
  Required Skills (top 3 to 5/ non-negotiables):
  
  
• Java experience is a must.
  
• REST API/GraphQL experience is important.
  
• Debugging skills as this role is more on the support side than development.
  
• Basic Computer Science knowledge.
  
• Will speak with buyers and sellers directly so need great communication skills.
  
  
  What you like to see on resumes? (nice to have):
  
  
• Unique to live so streaming experience - Live, radio streaming, and video streaming tools.
  
• Springboot experience.
  
• Soft skills: Great level of communication skills, strong problem-solving skills.
  
  
  Education Requirement:
  Minimum high school education. No college experience - 7-9 years of experience. Minimum 3-5 years of experience with a college degree.
  
  Software Skills:
  Java, Springboot, debugging skills.
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