Senior Web Engineer - Backend
Redwood City, CA

Job Description

Shutterfly's Commerce team is looking for a Senior backend Engineer. Shutterfly leads the industry in design, service and innovation. We achieve this through cutting-edge technology, uncompromising service and high-quality products that are beautiful and unique. You will join a team of talented engineers to work in a variety of services and store infrastructure initiatives.

Responsibilities:

* Architecture design and implementation of various micro services for a scalable, next-gen ecommerce platform
* Collaborate with product managers, interface designers, operations, and other members of the project team in requirements specification, feasibility analysis, detailed engineering analysis, development estimates, and release planning
* Coach and mentor engineers with various levels of experience
* Identify and implement software engineering best practice

Required Qualifications:

* BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field, MS preferred
* Solid foundation in OOP, design patterns, algorithms, programming languages, networking and operating systems
* Ability to use and understand debugging and monitoring tools like Splunk, Grafana etc.
* At least 5 years of website development experience with proficiency in latest versions of HTML5, XML, CSS3, Java and Microservice frameworks such as Spring boot.
* Experience with Java 8, Spring, Maven, Git
* Experience with API design and API management solutions like APIGeeetc.,
* Experience working with unit test tools such as TestNG
* Experience with relational databases and working experience with NoSQL.
* Experience in large-scale consumer web site development, and leveraging content delivery networks
* Experience with working in an agile environment.
* Excellent problem-solving ability and debugging skills - ability to dive deep, find your way, and modify a very large code base
* Good communication and personal skills: ability to interact and work well with members of other functional groups in a project team and a strong sense of project ownership

Preferred Qualifications:

* Experience working with Javascriptframeworks such as React or Web components
* Experience contributing to open source projects
* Experience with AWS (SQS, Lambdas, S3) and Kubernetes