Backend engineer

Backend engineer JD:
Uses his/her technical expertise and experience to contribute to all sprint events (planning, refinements, retrospectives, demos)
Consults with the team about what is needed to fulfil the functional and non functional requirements of the IT product to be developed
Develops the IT product, performs the unit test in line with the customers wishes and IT areas internal ambitions and reviews colleagues IT products.
Designs, builds and tests IT products (functional, performance, resilience and security tests) and automates them.
Performs Life Cycle Management (including decommissioning) for IT products under management
Improves the Continuous Delivery process
Resolves incidents and problems relating to IT products under management (including stack)
Sets up the IT environment, deploys the IT product on the IT infrastructure and implements the required changes
Sets up monitoring of IT product usage by the customer
Operating Environment, Framework and Boundaries, Working Relationships
The Back End developer is responsible for the system to work behind the scenes. Their role is to integrate the application with all required systems and services and provide clean and easy to use API for the frontend part of the system. Although their work is usually hidden from the user they bear the full responsibility for the application functionality, performance and scalability. They know how to write clean modern APIs, integrate with legacy systems and work with databases.
Works within a multidisciplinary team or in an environment in which multidisciplinary teamwork is carried out.
Is primarily responsible for the production (or technical
configuration) of software applications.
The range of tasks includes the following:
the analysis and design of the application (or the technical configuration)
coding applications and/or package integration in one programming languages, scripting languages and frameworks:
Java Spring Boot, NodeJS, etc., functional programming in Scala )
Object-Oriented programing and engineering principles like SOLID
Autonomous services oriented RESTful API services and performance tuning largescale apps
Database systems, with knowledge of SQL and NoSQL stores (MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Couchbase)
Integrate with JavaScript frameworks, such as React, Angular JS is a plus
Continuous Delivery (Compile, Build, Package, Deploy)
Test-Driven Development (TDD) and test automation (regression, functional and integration tests) debugging and profiling
software configuration management and version control.
Be an active participant in grooming and planning, to ensure that acceptance criteria are clear
Sit together with designers, SMEs and Product Owner while user stories are developed, bringing input
Work in an agile/scrum environment, meeting sprint commitments and contributing to the agile process