Backend Engineer - Java

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💎 Seniority level: Senior, 5+ years

📍 Location: Germany

🔍 Industry: Software Development

🏢 Company: LivePerson👥 501-1000💰 $100,000,000 Post-IPO Debt 11 months ago🫂 Last layoff over 4 years agoInternet Customer Service Artificial Intelligence (AI)Business Intelligence Software

⏳ Experience: 5+ years

🪄 Skills: Backend DevelopmentDockerGraphQLSoftware DevelopmentAgileCloud ComputingJavaKafkaKubernetesMySQLSpring BootAlgorithmsAPI testingData StructuresCI/CDProblem SolvingRESTful APIsMicroservicesExcellent communication skillsTeamworkDebugging

Requirements:

5+ years of experience with Java at scale.
Experience with large-scale distributed microservices architecture.
Solid understanding of RESTful and GraphQL APIs.
Hands-on with CI/CD, monitoring, observability, and production readiness.

Responsibilities:

Own the design and implementation of significant portions of the product development
Help set the features, architecture, and best practices of the team, and have significant influence on our overall strategy. A commitment to teamwork, hustle, and strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners) are absolute requirements.
Create a reliable, scalable, and high performance service requiring exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems.
Drive the execution and delivery of features by collaborating with architects, product owners, engineers, user experience designers and data scientists
Build, scale and maintain critical features of the Enterprise platform that are used by millions of users and hundreds of thousands of customer service agents.
Understand the customer/business requirements and translate them to elegant/flexible/easy-to-use platform capabilities. Actively work with Customer Support and Solution teams to handle customer inquiries and minimize escalations
Collaborate with multiple external integration partners and come up with integration solutions that will enrich our Conversational Cloud platform and drive 100x growth
Participate in the long term product roadmap discussion, represent the product/platform in the architecture review boards, and advice product management team on the technical aspects of product strategy
Adopt, embrace, and promote agile and test-driven software development practices
An excellent communicator who is comfortable with leading a white-board design discussion, meeting with customers under pressure, articulating the technical value proposition to non-technical audience, and presenting to senior management

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