Senior Backend Engineer
About the Team
Clover Payment - Card-Not-Present aka [E-commerce] team plays a crucial role in expandingand improving our Payment platform. With Clover's eCommerce solutions, we can help merchants grow their business online by developing our payment web services and supportinga wide range of functionality across the suite of apps we provide to our merchants.
What does a Backend Engineer do at Clover?
Our Server Backend engineers work closely with Web Engineers, the Product Team, and QEto ensure seamless collaboration in the development process. Our engineers are pragmaticin balancing priorities and thrive in an iterative model where server features are releasedonce every two weeks. As a Server Backend engineer, your responsibilities would include
owning one or more of the payment services, adding new features, resolving bugs, and refactoring/improving the codebase.
What you will do:
- Design and implement REST APIs for mobile and web clients including our payment devices, web dashboard, and 3rd party apps
- Identify technical requirements in product meetings and assist the business team with realistic project planning and feature development; translate product requirements into functional, maintainable, extensible software that is in-linewith company objectives
- Own your merchant-facing services /features from development through deployment and production monitoring
- Participate in design/code reviews.
- Mentor junior engineers
- Partner with the Infrastructure Team to design data models to support large scale highly available services
- Work with QA to develop test plans/strategies
- Participate in a regular on call rotation
What you will need:
-Degree in Computer Science or Engineering field
-8+ years of industry experience
-Strong coding skills; Java is our language of choice
-Experience with Docker and Kubernetes, Apache Kafka and Google Pub/Sub
-Experience with microservices, preferably Spring Boot
-Strong knowledge of relational databases, MySQL
-Experience with Cloud Technologies
-Experience with API design
-Superior problem-solving skills and debugging capabilities
What would be great to have:
Payments domain experience
Ability to clearly articulate API design and technical requirements with thought‐
ful documentation gathering requirements, exploring alternative solutions, and
implementing code along the way.
Experience with scalability and high availability; monitoring with Grafana,
Datadog etc
Security concepts
Dependency Injection Frameworks.
Experience with a cloud platform, preferably Google Cloud
Degree in Computer Science or equivalent Engineering field
Python scripting
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