Senior Staff Java Backend Engineer

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Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, shortening the path to connectivity to enable the innovations that enrich our work, life and planet.

A place where bold ideas are welcomed, human connection is valued, and everyone has the opportunity to shape their future.

Job Summary

Analyzes business requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints. Designs software systems.

Responsibilities

Requirements Analysis

• Understands, reads, and reviews requirements

  
  
  

• Works with Business Analysts to understand business requirements

  
  
  

• Interacts with product management teams to understand product requirements

  
  
  

Software Architecture

• Participates in architectural review process

  
  
  

Software Design

• Leads Features and multiple modules design and participates in overall product design

  
  
  

• Provides technical leadership to the team

  
  
  

• Evaluates and recommends adoption of open source (pivot points to Software Architecture job family)

  
  
  

• Design, develop, and maintain end-to-end web applications using modern technologies

  
  
  

Development/Coding

• Develop robust back-end services and APIs using Java (Spring Boot)

  
  
  

• Implement secure, scalable, and high-performance architectures.

  
  
  

• Build responsive and dynamic front-end interfaces using frameworks like React.js

  
  
  

• Develops scripts and code for a feature and multiple modules and product

  
  
  

• Cross-technical integration

  
  
  

• Participates in peer reviews

  
  
  

• Adoption of standard coding processes

  
  
  

Testing

• Ensure code quality through best practices, unit testing, and code reviews.

  
  
  

• Fixes defects

  
  
  

• Develops test strategies

  
  
  

• Recommends testing frameworks

  
  
  

DevOps

• Defines roadmap of automation tools and its value to software engineering practices

  
  
  

• Drives infrastructure provisioning working with cross-domain teams and works on projecting future infrastructure capacity

  
  
  

• Takes accountability of the Design Reviews and deliverables

  
  
  

Software Reliability & Support Engineering

• Defines roadmap of production change control and its value to software engineering practices

  
  
  

• Drives certification processes working with cross-domain teams

  
  
  

• Takes accountability of the Operational SLAs

  
  
  

• Debugs L2 and L3 incidents/problems

  
  
  

Customer/Stakeholder Engagement

Technical Project Management

• Provides level of effort (LOE)

  
  
  

• Works with technical project managers and product management teams to define schedule

  
  
  

• Provides status reports

  
  
  

• Defines and drives release management planning

  
  
  

R&D/Innovation

• Investigates, analyzes, and evaluates new technologies

  
  
  

• Influences senior management in setting the organization's technical objectives

  
  
  

• Keeps abreast of new developments to help define the necessary changes to practice

  
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor's in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

  
  
  

•  7+ years of experience in full-stack development

  
  
  

•  Strong proficiency in Java and Spring Boot for backend development

  
  
  

•  Solid experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, and modern front-end frameworks (React.js preferred)

  
  
  

•  Expertise in RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and microservices architecture

  
  
  

•  Experience with databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or similar

  
  
  

•  Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and Kubernetes

  
  
  

•  Knowledge of cloud services (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

  
  
  

•  Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in an agile environment

  
  
  

•  Excellent communication and leadership skills

  
  
  

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