Job Description
As a Staff Software Engineer at Equinix, you will be part of a world-class engineering team that's building a new digital twin platform for managing the data centers business. This product will be used for capacity and inventory management and thanks to advanced process automation and 3D visualization, is going to help the company grow even further.
You will work on distributed architecture, microservices, cloud, APIs, containers, and automation, which excites you.
The ideal candidate has strong experience in building robust services using Java, Spring Boot, and related technologies, including PostgreSQL/Aurora, JOOQ/JPA/Hibernate, and Docker.
Key Responsibilities:
• Solve for the customer - understand the WHY and enrich the specification to create a solution that delights customers
• Take part in the estimation, design, and development of key system features
• Evaluate and recommend the adoption of open-source and new technologies
• Create efficient, reusable, and reliable code
• Ensure cross-technical integration
• Participate in peer reviews and adoption of standard coding processes
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
• Promptly resolve production issues based on priority - with a focus on unblocking the customer, and ensuring problems do not recur
• Mentor junior team members
Requirements:
• Proven strong experience in building robust services, preferably on a Java, Spring Boot-based cloud development stack
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming, design, and architectural patterns messaging and event-based systems, and REST API design
• Experience with multiple architecture styles including SOA, API-first, and micro-services architectures
• Experience in architecting and building large-scale systems using a scale-out architecture that requires high availability, performance, high scalability, and multi-tenancy
• Experience working on cloud-based SaaS/PaaS products
• Understanding of web frontends and an understanding of HTML DOM, CSS, and event scripting
• Experience using Kubernetes, Docker, API Gateways, Service Mesh, and related technologies
• Hands-on experience working within the agile process and CI/CD frameworks such as GitHub Actions
• Ability to transition between programming languages and toolsets
• Ability to effectively communicate new ideas and design tradeoffs
• Must: Java, Spring-boot, PostgreSql/Aurora, JOOQ/JPA/Hibernate, 6+ years experience
• Nice-to-haves: Experience with GraphQL also including NodeJS version - Apollo, Prisma, spatial databases
A successful candidate will:
• Be a talent multiplier who gets the team around them to excel
• Be persistent, creative, and driven to get results relentlessly
• Exhibit a strong backbone to challenge the status quo when needed
• Exhibit a high level of curiosity, staying on top of the latest trends & technologies
• Show pride in ownership and strive for excellence in everything undertaken
