Java Software Engineer
Chicago, IL

Job Description

PowerReviews is a fast-growing software company who partners with more than 1,000 global brands and retailers to help them improve product and shopping experiences. Through user-generated feedback like reviews, Q&A, and customer surveys, PowerReviews connects the entire shopping experience giving both businesses and consumers critical information for making informed decisions.

In your role as a Backend Java Engineer, you will work with our scrum teams to build highly scalable Java functionalities in AWS that will continue to innovate on consumer feedback collection, display, and analysis.

About Our Team

We have a team-oriented culture, and you will find yourself working closely with other engineers of varying disciplines (DevOps, QA, Front-End ReactJS, Full-Stack Ruby, etc), product, data science as well as other parts of the organization. We build and maintain a scalable platform that evolves to ever changing business requirements, we learn from our experiences to always improve, and we have fun and celebrate our successes.

Our Tech Stack

We use AWS with many of our applications written in Java and using open-source technologies. Our engineers also look to adopt modern technologies to solve our business challenges.

Languages: Java 8 and 11, Ruby on Rails, Javascript, Elixir, and Python

Frameworks: Spring (Boot, MVC, Security, etc.), React.js

Databases: PostgreSQL, Neo4J Graph Database, ElasticSearch, Snowflake

AWS: DynamoDB, RDS, Redshift, S3, ElastiCache/Redis, EMR, Lambda, Cloudfront, SQS, SNS, CloudFormation, ECS/Docker, Linux

Developer/DevOps tools: Jenkins for CI and Deployment, Sumologic, Datadog, Maven, Git

Key Responsibilities

* Take ownership of projects and collaborate with stakeholders to develop robust, multi-tiered web applications.
* Collaborate with front-end, QA, product, devops and UX teammates in an agile development environment.
* Add new features and maintain an existing codebase while learning a variety of technologies and working in the AWS ecosystem.
* Promote high quality code with thoughtful design, unit testing and automated functional testing.
* Proactively identify improvements within our infrastructure, production operations, and code base.

Required Skills

* Deep understanding of Java development, database modeling and design, and scalable web architectures.
* Professional experience with Java technologies and tools such as Spring Boot, Spring MVC, SQL, Hibernate/JPA, Maven, and IntelliJ/Eclipse.
* Experience developing REST API's
* Comfortable working with Git and Linux

Other Requirements

* Must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Perks

* Open office environment and casual dress code
* Unlimited vacation and flexible work from home policies
* Yearly training budget for learning and conferences
* Company lunches provided weekly; snacks always available
* On-tap wine, beer, kombucha, iced coffee and cold brew
* Rooftop, gym, and office events
* Sports leagues and ping-pong tournaments

PowerReviews is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) that welcomes and encourages all applicants to apply regardless of age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify and/or expression, national origin, disability, veteran status, marital or parental status, ancestry, citizenship status, pregnancy or other reasons prohibited by law.