Senior Software Engineer in Belfast

Overview

The Content Core team is the first major entry point to Bazaarvoice’s User Generated Content workflow. The services offered by this team provide processing, collection, storage, management, auditing and authenticating each piece of content which enters into Bazaarvoice.

This team is highly collaborative, proficient and very well organised. As a Senior Engineer seeking to join this team, you will be responsible for helping design, develop, deliver and own a range of solutions to help extend Bazaarvoice’s Client experience portfolio. You will have opportunities to work with fantastic engineers across the globe building features to expand product capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behavioral Driven Development (BDD).
• Write high quality code, participate in code reviews and advocate for best practices in software development.
• Understand the complexity of monolith applications and the ability to decompose applications into manageable modern microservices.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams, Senior Staff and Principal engineers.
• Own and deliver high quality technical solutions with a strong delivery mindset.
• Develop software product features with a security-first mindset.
• Triage, investigate and resolve production issues and outages.
• Coach junior engineers on the team.
• Participate in on-call rotation and responsibilities.
• Experience with implementing monitoring and alerting for the applications.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience working on backend technologies.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Strong understanding and experience developing scalable microservices.
• Experience with cloud-native technologies.
• Experience working in Agile environments and methodologies (e.g., Scrum).
• Experience developing RESTful APIs.
• Proficiency in backend programming languages such as Java, Kotlin, etc.
• Knowledge of best practices in software development and experience with design patterns and SOLID principles.
• Proficient with relational databases, e.g., MySQL.
• Experience developing security best practices to protect data and ensure compliance with security standards and regulations.
• Excellent problem solving and communication skills.
• Experience utilizing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or equivalent.

Desired

• Experience with scripting languages like Bash.
• Experience with NoSQL datastores (e.g., DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, or similar).
• Experience with event-driven solutions (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ or similar).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., CloudFormation, Terraform, SAM or similar).

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