Backend Developer
Detroit Labs, United States

About Detroit Labs

About Your Role

As a Backend Developer, you will write reliable, maintainable backend software for Detroit Labs projects. You're excited to adapt to new technologies and discoveries, and incorporate those into ongoing work. You will work together with your teammates to build, review, and learn from each other's code, to estimate features, to support each other's technical and team-based growth, and to fulfill development commitments to launch mobile and web software projects

Requirements

• 3+ years building and delivering scalable services using JVM technologies in a professional software team.
• 1+ years using Spring or Spring Boot.
• Knowledge of distributed enterprise and database systems.
• Experience designing, creating, and consuming RESTful APIs, using tools like Swagger/OpenAPI.
• Experience with creating middleware between software systems.
• Quality-focused, with a software development style that incorporates unit testing, continuous integration, or other development practices to create software that is high quality and maintainable over time.
• Can plan and accomplish tasks without micromanagement.
• Experience reading and reviewing other team member’s code for defect and performance improvement. Experience reflecting on and incorporate other team member’s feedback to improve their own code.
• Experience with software estimating and estimating new software features with the information readily available at the time when software estimates are requested.
• Wisdom to choose the right technology at the right time for the right reason.

Nice to Haves

• Build and deploy scalable cloud applications
• DevOps experience (CI/CD tools such as Jenkins)
• Kubernetes experience
• Gradle experience
• Docker experience
• Experience with agile methodologies and incorporating them in a client services team environment

Benefits

• The salary range for this role is $52k-$97k, commensurate with experience
• Health, dental, and vision coverage
• 401k with employer match
• Annual budget for education amp; enrichment
• Flexible work schedule and open vacation policy
• Maternity and paternity leave program
• Quarterly profit sharing
• Free downtown Detroit parking
• A MacBook, or whatever equipment you need to do your work
• Thoughtful events and outings for you, your family, and friends

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