Senior Backend Engineer job in New York

At Casebook, our software makes people’s lives better. Designed to “help the helpers” our innovative SaaS solutions help improve outcomes in Human Services. We are looking for a senior software/systems engineer, who will serve in a client-facing role for the implementation of a large IT integration project.

Our ideal candidate has deep experience building enterprise software, and is committed to standing up a shippable product as part of a diverse and high-performing team that includes client stakeholders, other software engineers, designers, QA testers, release managers, product managers, and infrastructure engineers. He or she is a born problem solver, with a solid understanding of web technology, architecture, and process who is able to drive consensus around workable solutions.

The candidate will have a leadership role on an Agile high-performance development team involved in delivering major components of Casebook Platform that caters to all human services. The ideal candidate needs to have an engineering mindset, exception appetite for cutting edge technological advances, enthusiastic about continuous learning and needs to have worked successfully in Agile teams. The role includes client facing delivery and implementation of Casebook Platform for large scale state and local government projects.

What you’ll do (Responsibilities):

Provide technical leadership in the design, integration, implementation, and transition of enterprise SaaS human services system
Flexible design architectural approach to deliver configurability along the data creation, integrations, workflows, notifications, and data persistence
Understand and synthesize integration requirements, and develop recommendations based on business objectives, product roadmap, solution architecture, and technical considerations
Contribute to the development of Casebook platform functionality using state-of-the-art frameworks and tools
Specify and troubleshoot API integrations in an ecosystem of multiple systems
Work closely with client stakeholders, partners, product managers, creative designers, platform architect, and other software engineers
Constantly learn and use leading-edge technologies
Implement a system that will address the needs of vulnerable populations
Contribute to the highest security, extensibility, reusability and testing standards in system architecture and software, interface, components, data structures, and algorithms specifications

What You Have (Skills and Experience):

You have at least 5+ years experience building enterprise loosely coupled SaaS solutions
Experience building multi-tier web applications (Java preferred)
Experience building microservices
Experience utilizing OpenAPI standards to deliver all phases of RestFUL web services
Experience with ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL, Redis, S3, Redshift, KSQL, Apache Kafka and Superset
Experience leading a major IT application implementation effort
Ability to synthesize information to deliver optimal solutions and identify roadblocks
Experience working with technical and operational management, and process owners
Must have a strong background in software engineering principles and techniques.
Strong analytical and technical skills to identify critical issues, escalate them and drive them to resolution.
Experience in an agile software development project
Experience using a software version control system (e.g., Git) in a project with multiple developers committing to a shared repository
Experience with IT security architecture and best practices
Experience with software testing, including test planning, integration testing and load and performance testing
Familiarity with an automated build and deploy pipeline
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent work experience)