Software Engineer

Summary

Join ITHAKA's CHAMPS team as a Software Engineer, contributing to the design, development, and maintenance of applications supporting content management operations. Collaborate with a passionate team to build high-performing, high-throughput applications, utilizing your strong problem-solving skills. Work on rich, interactive web applications using cutting-edge technologies and frameworks. Interact with internal and external customers to understand their needs and develop solutions. Participate in a self-organizing Agile team, contributing to system architecture and design. This role offers the opportunity to work on large-scale content and data management challenges.

Requirements

• 2 or more years of experience as a full-stack software engineer building large-scale web applications
• 2 or more years of experience designing and implementing backend applications using Java, Spring, Sprint Boot, JPA, Hibernate, RDBMS, etc
• Experience creating and operating user-facing applications using Angular framework
• Demonstrated excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to work well in a small-team environment
• Experience in service-based architectures including web-services, service-discovery (Eureka)
• Experience using a decentralized version control system like Git in a collaborative context on a platform like GitHub
• Knowledge of full web technology stack (e.g., HTTP, cookies, headers, caching, CDN, and security)
• Experience with Linux, shell scripting, or other scripting languages
• Familiarity with unit testing (JUnit)

Responsibilities

• Participate as an empowered member of a collaborative Agile team to design, develop, and maintain high-performance applications
• Interact with internal and external customers to understand their needs and drive the development of web applications to meet those needs
• Implement rich, interactive web applications using the latest technologies, frameworks, and patterns
• Perform analysis and improve system performance and throughput
• Identify bottlenecks, problems, and come up with strategies to resolve them
• Participate in the on-call rotation as a first point of contact for applications you own

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent is preferred
• Knowledge of ELK stack, MongoDB, Kafka
• Knowledge of XML parsing and transformation using XSLT

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision plans
• An employer-paid 10% retirement contribution
• Paid parental and caregiver leave
• 22 days of paid time off
• 11 paid holidays
• Up to 12 sick days
• Wellness benefits