Back End Developer

BBW Engineering - Senior Backend Engineer Position Title: Senior Backend Engineer Reports To: Sr. Manager/Manager, Backend Engineering Department: BBW Engineering Last Updated: 04.21.2026 We are seeking a talented and experienced Java Cloud Microservices Senior Developer to join our dynamic development team. You will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining distributed, service-oriented applications in a cloud environment, including both microservices and federated GraphQL architectures.

Your experience with cloud technologies, service-based design, and performance monitoring will be essential to building scalable, efficient, and secure systems. Additionally, familiarity with Agile methodologies and experience in producing high-quality documentation will play a critical role in ensuring the team's success. Required Skills & Qualifications: 5-7 years experience with Java and Springboot Development in an enterprise, high performing echosystem Solid understanding of development activities, such as, code branching strategies, code reviews, and team mentoring throughout the SDLC.

Microservices Architecture - Solid understanding and experience in developing microservice applications, RESTful APIs and event-driven architectures. Knowledge on GraphQL Schema Definition Language (SDL), Type systems, and designing intuitive, forward-compatible schemas. Resolvers & Optimization: Ability to write efficient resolvers and implement design patterns or schema Stitching to unify microservices.

Implementing field-level authorization, query depth limiting, and rate limiting to protect the graph. Enhance application performance and resolve issues in a timely manner. Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code following standard methodologies.

Version Control & CI/CD – Solid experience with CI/CD pipelines. Containerization & Orchestration – Understanding of Docker and Kubernetes for container orchestration. Testing and quality assurance: Write unit and integration tests to ensure the quality and stability of the shared code.

Monitoring and Maintenance - Experience setup of dashboard and monitor tools to track performance, availability, and outages on Datadog, Dynatrace or any performance monitoring tools. Documentation skills - Ability to write clear and accurate technical documentation for code, system flow and process. Database Skills - Experience working with GigaSpaces, MySQL, PostgreSQL.

Experience with GigaSpaces Pluggable Connector framework a plus. Technical analysis skills, including root cause analysis of highly urgent, critical production issues. High familiarity with technical investigation strategies, including review of logs, database, configuration, Control-M jobs.

Act as a delivery lead on projects, and participate in discovery sessions, design workshops, project delivery, user acceptance testing, and cutover planning. Collaborate with third party vendors for system integration, to drive resolution of incidents, introduction of new capabilities, and system upgrades. Apply knowledge of application architecture, industry trends and best practices to recommend process or technology changes.

Qualifications & Experience 5-7 years working in the IT industry completing both projects and production support/issue resolution. Good interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills vital to interact with BBW technology team, BBW brand partners, and third party vendors. Outstanding problem solving and decision-making skills.

Ability to communicate technical issues and solutions in a concise and understandable manner. Experience with Node.js and Typescript. Knowledge on Apollo Federation.

Experience in delivery methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, Iterative). Experience with Delivery tools: Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence, Stash, Git), MS Azure, Jenkins. Experience creating supporting application documentation (system context diagrams, API sequence diagrams, etc).

Core Competencies Lead with Curiosity & Humility Build High Performing Teams for Today & Tomorrow Influence & Inspire with Vision & Purpose Observe, Engage & Connect Strive to Achieve Operational Excellence Deliver Business Results