Backend Developer

About Stefanini Group

Stefanini Group is a global provider of offshore, onshore, and nearshore outsourcing, IT digital consulting, systems integration, application, and strategic staffing services to Fortune 1000 enterprises. With a presence in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, we serve over four hundred clients across industries such as financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, chemical services, technology, public sector, and utilities. Stefanini is a CMM Level 5 company.

Responsibilities

• Code, test, and deploy critical features for Connected Consumer and Vehicle applications, ensuring consistency, optimization, resilience, and security.
• Utilize Java, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, Test-Driven Development (TDD), and Agile principles—including JIRA—throughout the development lifecycle.
• Implement and advocate for software craftsmanship best practices, ensuring solutions are well documented, maintainable, and compliant with high coding standards.
• Develop and implement comprehensive test plans, automate delivery processes, and continuously improve efficiency to eliminate waste and facilitate rapid, reliable feature releases.
• Architect and design comprehensive API load-testing strategies.
• Lead threat-modeling initiatives in collaboration with security teams to ensure robust, high-performance systems.
• Design and operate cloud-native systems, with Google Cloud Platform preferred.
• Work with relational databases (PostgreSQL, SQL) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB), including data modeling, transactional integrity, and performance tuning.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, translate requirements into technical specifications, and provide ongoing support for application features.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of software development experience.
• Experience building resilient and scalable solutions in Java and cloud-native environments while adhering to industry best practices and company standards.
• Experience developing and providing ongoing support and maintenance for software services.
• At least 2–3 years of experience building applications within a microservices product architecture.
• Expertise in core technologies, including Java, Spring, Spring Boot, JUnit, Google Cloud Platform, and RESTful APIs.
• Experience with MongoDB, relational databases, and NoSQL solutions.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipeline design and implementation within a GitHub-based development workflow.
• Experience with canary deployments and API-related technologies, including JSON, REST, Swagger, and Hoppscotch.
• Knowledge of continuous delivery processes, tools, testing frameworks, and testing practices; experience with GitHub, Terraform, and Tekton is preferred.
• Ability to generate metrics, perform user access authorization, maintain passwords, and build deployment pipelines.
• Knowledge of testing and security methodologies and tools such as SonarQube, Checkmarx, and Dynatrace.
• Experience with Agile project management tools, such as JIRA, or equivalent tools.
• Bachelor’s degree (Master’s degree preferred).

Skills

• Required: Java, REST API development, Spring Boot, GitHub, Jenkins, MongoDB, Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Preferred: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Agile software development, cross-functional collaboration, Python for scripting, OAuth authentication, Visual Studio Copilot, IntelliJ IDEA, Postman, Hoppscotch.