Back-end Software Development Engineer

• We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated Software Engineer to work as part of our high performing engineering team in an exciting and fast paced environment.
• In this role you will have the opportunity to work with cutting edge cloud-native technologies including Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Spring Boot, Cloud SQL, Dataflow, BigQuery and our platforms.
  
  

Primary Skills Required

• React
• Typescript
• Java
• Spring Boot Framework
• SQL Experience (Postgres, MSSQL etc.)
• Application delivery using iterative
• Test driven
• Agile development practices including pairing/mobbing
• Instrumentation
• Monitoring and visualization tools including Grafana, Splunk, GCP Cloud Logging
  
  

Skills Required

Java, Spring Boot, Acceptance Testing, Integration, GCP, GCP Cloud Run, Google Cloud Platform, Tekton, Spring Security, Python, Big Query, Extract Transform Load (Etl) Java, Spring Boot

• Expectation & Example: Build scalable Java 17+ / Spring Boot microservices. E.g., Developing a database-connected REST API from scratch with JUnit tests. Acceptance Testing
• Expectation & Example: Write automated end-to-end tests. E.g., validate user checkout flows against business requirements. Integration, GCP
• Expectation & Example: Connect microservices with GCP services. E.g., Integrating Spring Boot with GCP services. GCP Cloud Run
• Expectation & Example: Containerize and deploy serverless apps. E.g., Packaging a Spring Boot app via a multi-stage Dockerfile and deploying to Cloud Run with auto-scaling limits. Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Expectation & Example: Manage core GCP infrastructure, networking, and IAM security. E.g., Configuring least-privilege service accounts for Cloud Storage and Secret Manager. Tekton
• Expectation & Example: Build cloud-native CI/CD pipelines. E.g., Writing Tekton YAML configurations (Tasks/Pipelines) to test, build, and deploy apps to Kubernetes/GKE. Spring Security
• Expectation & Example: Secure enterprise microservices. E.g., Configuring an OAuth2/JWT Resource Server with role-based access control (RBAC). Python
• Expectation & Example: Write clean python code for AI/ML application. BigQuery
• Expectation & Example: Design schemas and write highly optimized SQL. E.g., Querying millions of rows using partitioning and clustering to minimize processing costs. Extract Transform Load (ETL)
• Expectation & Example: Design robust data pipelines. E.g., Building a GCP Dataflow pipeline to extract raw logs, validate schemas, and read them from BigQuery and load into Postgres.
  
  

Skills Preferred

Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems Machine Learning

• Expectation & Example: Integrate and deploy ML models. E.g., Hosting a regression model on GCP Vertex AI and calling its endpoint from a backend service for real-time predictions. Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems
• Expectation & Example: Implement decision engines or leverage GenAI APIs. E.g., Integrating Google's Gemini API or similar.
  
  

Experience Required

• Engineer Exp.: Practitioner: 1 coding language or framework.
• 4+ years in IT
• 3+ years in development
• 1+ years of experience in Machine Learning Language
  
  

Experience Preferred

• Backend experience in Java (Spring Boot)
• Experience in application delivery using iterative
• Agile development practices including pairing/mobbing
• Test driven development (TDD)
• Behaviour driven development (BDD)
• Continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD)
• Feature flagging
• A/B testing
• Blue/green deployment
• SQL experience (Postgres, MSSQL)
• Experience with instrumentation, monitoring and visualization tools including Grafana, Splunk, GCP Cloud Logging,
  
  

Education Required

• Bachelor's Degree
  
  

Education Preferred

• Master's Degree
  
  

Additional Information

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and enhance back-end APIs and services, primarily using Java/Spring Boot
• Develop data transformation using GCP Dataflow, BigQuery and GCS
• Troubleshoot and debug to optimise performance and stability.
• Integrate and work with best-in-class analysis tools to improve code security and quality.
• Integrate with third party internal and external libraries and APIs as needed to deliver business functionality.
• Instrument, measure and monitor application performance using cloud native toolsets (Grafana, Splunk, GCP native tools and more)
• Working as part of an Agile team, support the entire application lifecycle from initial concept through design, development, test, deployment and operational support.
• Collaborate and innovate with multiple interfacing product teams.
• Advocate for engineering excellence, exceptional usability and outstanding quality.
  
  

Additional Info

At FastTek Global, Our Purpose is Our People and Our Planet . We come to work each day and are reminded we are helping people find their success stories . Also, Doing the right thing is our mantra . We act responsibly, give back to the communities we serve and have a little fun along the way.

We have been doing this with pride, dedication and plain, old-fashioned hard work for 24 years !

FastTek Global is financially strong, privately held company that is 100% consultant and client focused .

We've differentiated ourselves by being fast, flexible, creative and honest . Throw out everything you've heard, seen, or felt about every other IT Consulting company. We do unique things and we do them for Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and technology start-up companies.

Benefits

Our benefits are second to none and thanks to our flexible benefit options you can choose the benefits you need or want, options include:

• Medical and Dental (FastTek pays majority of the medical program)
• Vision
• Personal Time Off (PTO) Program
• Long Term Disability (100% paid)
• Life Insurance (100% paid)
• 401(k) with immediate vesting and 3% (of salary) dollar-for-dollar match
  
  

Plus, we have a lucrative employee referral program and an employee recognition culture.

FastTek Global was named one of the Top Work Places in Michigan by the Detroit Free Press in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 , 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023!

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AI & Hiring Disclosure

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