Backend Engineer (Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, REST) | Hybrid - Sunnyvale, CA

Job TitleMarketplace AccelerationJob DescriptionYour main goals are to:Power client inventory system, handling billions of events daily.Maximize on-site availability while minimizing reject rates due to lack of inventory.Give more insight to our marketing and operations teams via more historical data and improved analytics.Unify inventory management responsibilities currently spread across multiple systems and teams.Debug production issues with other teams across services and multiple levels of the stack.RequirementsTop-notch programming skills, with an interest in functional programming languages.Solid coding skills in Java/J2EE technologies with Spring Boot experienceSolid understanding of designing, developing and supporting large scale, cloud based distributed systems.Experience with REST based API DevelopmentSOA Architecture experience is needed to develop scalable APIsExposure to event based and asynchronous processing.Strong operational excellence and testing skills.Someone who values automation. We don't like solving the same problem manually over and over.Experience working with distributed databases (Cosmos/Cassanda/etc)Nice to HaveFluent in a few programming languages, functional, dynamic and static.Solid understanding of how to use data structures to solve problems optimally.Good understanding of event-driven systems.Experience with Apache Kafka or similar streaming platform.Understands DevOps: how to support large scale distributed systems, how to prioritize and escalate issues.