Senior Backend Developer

Summary

Join gravity9's growing team and contribute to impactful projects. This role involves working as a backend software engineer with expertise in MongoDB and Java, Node.js, and TypeScript. You will be responsible for helping clients adopt the latest version of MongoDB, leading team discussions, and guiding less experienced developers. The ideal candidate possesses strong technical skills, including experience with Spring Boot, Azure or AWS, and containerization, as well as excellent communication and problem-solving abilities.

Requirements

• This role will suit a highly capable developer with extended working experience with Java, Node.js and MongoDB (or any other NoSQL database)
• Excellent command / highly proficient in spoken and written English (working directly with UK/US based clients)
• Expert in Java 8+ and ideally having Java 11/14/17 and OpenJDK experience
• Expert in Node.js and TypeScript
• Hands-on experience with MongoDB or other NoSQL DB, including data modeling in NoSQL databases
• Thorough understanding of Spring, especially Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Spring Data
• Experience working with Azure or AWS
• Understanding of Synch and Async communication (REST-based, Queue and/or Topic based (depending on technology)
• Proficiency in working with Microservice Architecture
• Including containerization, high availability, and failover scenarios
• Experience writing unit and integration tests
• Experience in working with Docker and containerized applications
• Experience in Maven/Gradle and working with CI/CD pipelines
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Customer Focus – passion for understanding the problem we are trying to solve with software and to advocate solutions to your client
• Delivery focus - strong analysis and problem-solving skills. Ability to evaluate, design and implement effective solutions. Flexibility to adapt skills to a spectrum of client engagements, use cases and modes of change delivery
• Exemplary standards of personal integrity and respect for others – professional approach to all aspects of client engagement and collaborative team working, able to quickly build relationships based on trust and transparency. Strong presentation and written and verbal communication are essential given the client facing nature of the role
• Value driven - Creative thinking, with aptitude for innovation and strong desire to exceed client expectations
• Energy – positive attitude and determination to learn and succeed

Responsibilities

• You will be involved in helping clients to adopt the latest version of MongoDB across a suite of their application
• You will take an active lead in team discussions and code reviews and work collaboratively with your colleagues to identify, prioritise and deliver features which bring value to our clients
• You will also guide less experienced developers
• We believe small, multi-disciplinary teams are most effective in delivering complex change
• As such, we are looking for someone with a collaborative mindset who is happy to be flexible and take on different responsibilities over the lifetime of our projects