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Photon

Junior Backend Engineer - Dallas, TX

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In-Office or Remote
Hiring Remotely in United States
37K-132K Annually
Junior
In-Office or Remote
Hiring Remotely in United States
37K-132K Annually
Junior
Design and build backend solutions following architecture and best practices. Develop APIs, web services, database schemas, PL/SQL/stored procedures (DB2/Oracle). Collaborate with senior engineers, participate in code reviews, testing, and coordinate technical delivery across teams. Support CI/CD and improve code quality.
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The Value You Deliver:

• Design and build a quality solution which aligns with the technology blueprint and best practices.

• Solving the technology solutions by working closely with the senior developers, tech leads, architects and contributing highly to the design strategy, coding standards with the peer developers for the quality deliverables

• Using technology skills to translate the vision for divisional initiatives into business solutions by developing complex or multiple software applications.

• Adhering to the project development policies, procedures, standards, and strategies.

The Skills that are Key to this role:

Technical / Behavioral

• Proven hands on experience with API Design and development of muti-layer architecture using Java/J2EE solutions and Spring framework

• Design and develop webservices, database schema, PL/SQLs, stored procedures, and transactional SQL within DB2 / Oracle databases;

• Hands-on in GIT and branching strategies

• Exposure in resolving technical roadblocks involving multiple technologies.

• Adhering code reviews, unit testing, and integration testing completeness.

• Helping to coordinate the delivery of technical components across internal/external technical teams.

The Skills that are Good to Have for this role:

• Proven technical skills as an individual contributor.

• Able to be highly productive on an agile project delivery team.

• Collaborate with DevOps engineering to implement continuous integration and deployment using Jenkins and uDeploy tools; analyzing code quality issues using Sonar; implementing application resiliency procedures using HP Operations Orchestration; and process management using HP Service Manager and ServiceNow.

• Maintain trusted relationships with technical and business partners.

• Ability to learn with minimal guidance.
The Expertise We’re Looking For

· Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science Engineering/ Information Technology, Information Systems

· 3-5 years of hands-on technical experience

· Strong team player that thrives in a collaborative environment

· Strong written and verbal communication skills

· Quick learner and a great team player

· Experience in the financial services industry, preferably in the Mutual Fund environment, is a plus.


Compensation, Benefits and Duration

Minimum Compensation: USD 37,000
Maximum Compensation: USD 132,000
Compensation is based on actual experience and qualifications of the candidate. The above is a reasonable and a good faith estimate for the role.
Medical, vision, and dental benefits, 401k retirement plan, variable pay/incentives, paid time off, and paid holidays are available for full time employees.
This position is not available for independent contractors
No applications will be considered if received more than 120 days after the date of this post

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