Backend Lead Engineer
Sailthru
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.