Staff Backend Java Engineer

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Drive the development of core systems that power the platform's Planning, Scenario Modeling, and Analytics capabilities
• - Drive the development of intra-system interoperability
• - Execute the full software development lifecycle; technical analysis and design, development, and unit test phases
• - Identify, deliver, and drive improvements and innovations within the software, including large-scale technological and architectural changes
• - Work across many subsystems successfully deliver value to customers
• - Become a subject matter expert in travel and expense data and planning software systems
• - Provide technical leadership and share knowledge, for instance, through code reviews, pairing, ADRs, and presentations
• - Develop and maintain scalable backend services using Java and Spring Boot
• - Design and optimize queries for BigQuery, focusing on large-scale data analysis
• - Work with relational databases to create efficient schemas, write complex queries, and maintain data integrity
• - Build and manage OLAP systems for multidimensional data analysis and reporting
• - Create and maintain RESTful APIs with a focus on performance, security, and scalability
• - Collaborate with data engineers and product teams to design and implement ETL processes and data pipelines
• - Debug, troubleshoot, and optimize code to enhance system reliability and performance

Required Skills

• - Strong proficiency in Java, with 8+ years of hands-on experience in backend development
• - Ability and willingness to learn other coding languages and patterns quickly
• - Experience going from 0 to 1
• - Experience with SQL and with data intensive, asynchronous, distributed systems
• - Experience building or using Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) systems
• - Solid knowledge of Spring Boot, including experience with dependency injection, REST API development, and microservices architecture
• - Hands-on experience with BigQuery for querying and data optimization
• - Expertise in writing and optimizing SQL queries and working with relational databases
• - Familiarity with OLAP systems and concepts of multidimensional data modeling
• - Understanding of software design patterns, best practices, and architecture principles
• - Experience working in an agile development environment using git and agile project management tools
• - Strong debugging and problem-solving skills
• - Ability to define and uphold SLAs for operational processes you support
• - Excellent verbal and written communication skills and a team-oriented mindset
• - Experience in global, enterprise SaaS development
• - AWS (S3, RDS, EC2, IAM, Fargate, etc.) expertise
• - Collaborate with other Software and QA Engineers, Data Scientists, Report Developers, Product Managers, and Customer Success Professionals
• - Ability to debug hard problems at every level of the stack, i.e. you can debug a web application problem single-handedly all the way from the browser, through the transport, through the application and servers and databases and asynchronous queues

Benefits

• - Generous options in our early stage startup for key members of the team
• - Working among a diverse, expert team at the forefront of climate tech, behavioral change, and people technology
• - Opportunity to make a foundational contribution to our mission: close the gap between climate-related intention and action
• - Remote and Hybrid work environments
• - Robust benefits including full medical, dental and vision insurance, 401k (or similar retirement programs) and sustainability benefit ($500 annually to spend on increasing personal sustainability)