Senior Backend Engineer
Education Perfect, New Zealand

• Contributing directly to development, improvement and maintenance of the Education Perfect software platform, as needed
• Ensuring software meets all requirements of quality, security, maintainability, extensibility etc.
• Troubleshooting code level problems quickly and efficiently
• Proactively contribute to continuous improvement of the development processes and tools
• Software testing, including automated tests and manual testing, as required
• Create technical documentation for reference and reporting
• Other duties or responsibilities required at the discretion of your manager

Requirements

• Proficient with Education Perfect engineering stack (C#/.Net, Golang, Java) and preferred tools/style
• Practical experience in developing highly scalable, distributed, cloud-native platforms (preferably on AWS).
• Hugely advantageous to have lead or participated in the evolution of monolithic systems to microservices and have expertise in various design patterns.
• Expertise in service mesh/service bus/event bus.
• Expertise/fluency in modern relational and non-relational databases (Key-Value, Document, columnar or graph) and how these fit within various architectures and use cases.
• Expertise in API development (predominantly REST amp; gRPC but GraphQL welcome too), including governance amp; security.
• Deep understanding of cloud design patterns, cloud operations and cloud cost models with hands-on ability to implement best practices or suggest improvements.

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