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Backend Lead Engineer

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Hiring Remotely in United Kingdom
Senior level
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Hiring Remotely in United Kingdom
Senior level
Lead the backend engineering efforts, collaborate on scalable solutions, mentor team, and ensure software quality and performance.
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The Company:
Marigold helps brands foster customer relationships through the science and art of connection. Marigold Relationship Marketing is a suite of world-class martech solutions that help marketers create long term customer love and loyalty. Marigold provides the most comprehensive set of use cases for marketers at any level. Headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, Marigold has offices globally across the United States, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, South America and Central America, as well as in Japan.
 

What You’ll Do:

  • Collaborate with product, engineering, and data science teams to design, develop, and deploy highly scalable solutions.

  • Write and maintain comprehensive unit and integration tests for the software you produce.

  • Work through all phases of the software development life cycle, including analysis, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance

  • Work closely with the QA team to review test plans for gaps and completeness

  • Conduct performance benchmarks and tune the system for high throughput

  • Review team code commits and sign-off on commit quality and adherence to standards

  • Identify team member growth opportunities and mentor less experienced engineers

  • Participate or lead in architecture reviews to vet project design across the organization

  • Investigate, analyze and address reported defects in a timely manner

  • Deliver technical documentation for use by customers and partners

 

Ideal Qualifications: 

  • Degree in Computer Science or equivalent combination of education and experience

  • 7+ years programming experience in a enterprise, high-scale framework, with most recent significant experience in Java or Groovy

  • Advanced understanding of the core server-side development concepts

  • Proficient in writing and performance tuning complex SQL

  • Advanced relational DB experience with MySQL, Postgres or equivalent

  • Experience building and integrating with web services REST APIs

  • Experience with high performance datastores such as Redis (or similar experience working with NoSQL stores such as DynamoDB, ScyllaDB, Cassandra)

  • Experience working with queues and stream processing such as Kafka, (or similar experience working with SQS, SNS or Kinesis)

  • Experience working with AWS, GCP or equivalent cloud providers

  • Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written

  • Demonstrated ability to compose clear and concise technical documentation

Nice to Have:

  • Experience building high scale web application platforms or SaaS platforms

  • Experience using modern frameworks such as Micronaut, Vert.x or similar

  • Experience with  asynchronous programming patterns

  • Advanced experience working with stream processing and event driven architectures

  • Experience working with big data technology stacks such as Iceberg, Trino, Databricks, Clickhouse.

  • Experience delivering applications that work at large scale, processing tens of thousands of requests per second

What We Offer: 

  • The competitive salary and benefits you’d expect!

  • Generous time off (we call it Open Time Away) as well as paid holidays and a birthday benefit day off.

  • Retirement contributions. 

  • Employee-centric and supportive remote work environment with flexibility.

  • Support for life events including paid parental leave.

Top Skills

AWS
GCP
Groovy
Java
Kafka
MySQL
Postgres
Redis
Rest Apis
SQL

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