Backend Engineer

Job Description

As a Backend Developer, you will have the opportunity to design, build, test, maintain, and have a direct and meaningful impact on the roadmap of the Kroger Technology platform. You will be responsible for the design and development of backend components of highly scalable eCommerce web and Merchandizing applications.

• Experience with modern libraries and tooling

• Significant GO and Java programming skills and data structures

• Significant Microservices architecture and development skills

• Significant experience with the Spring Framework (Persistence, REST, Messaging, 

Integrations) such as Spring Boot

• Significant experience on core features of Spring such as Dependency Injection and 

Aspect-Oriented Programming, Spring Security, etc

• Significant knowledge of SQL Database and NoSQL Databases ( Oracle, Postgres, 

Cassandra )

• Significant experience in Messaging architectures & development- Kafka or equivalent

• Proven Experience in building RESTful APIs and a deep understanding of REST principles

• Proven Experience working with Docker or similar technologies, GIT, CI/CD, and writing 

unit/integration tests

• Strong analytical problem-solving skills and excellent written and verbal communication 

skills

• Self-starter with strong initiative, quality deliverable and ability to work under pressure

• Business-minded approach to time, costs, and deadlines

• Demonstrated ability to work well within a team environment

BONUS POINTS 

• Proven Experience Cloud Platforms like Azure or Pivotal Cloud Foundry

• Experience in programming using Javascript, Node, and React ecosystem is a plus point

• Familiarity with developing e-commerce application modules such as Catalog setup and Search ( Solr, ElasticSearch, etc)

• Proven Experience with Continuous Integration, Continuous delivery and continuous deployment

• Experience architecting and building high volume, fault-tolerant, highly available, and globally distributed systems in a cloud-native environment

• Experience with Agile development methodologies

• Familiarity with A/B testing, monitoring, and alerting

• Energetic, flexible, collaborative, team player, and good interpersonal skills

• A passion for keeping up-to-date with the latest cloud trends and technologies

Key Responsibilities

• Develop backend eCommerce web and Merchandizing applications in cloud platform technologies 

• Collaborate with designers & product managers to iterate on the design & implementation of our product 

• Work with Engineers from the full stack to build and ship features • Identify and uphold engineering best practices 

• Monitor performance, watch for traffic drops related to usability problems & rectify the issues 

• Review app and feature code and plan future API upgrades with the development team