TIP: Senior/Lead Back End Engineer – Java

Upwork ($UPWK) is the leading tech solution for companies looking to hire the best talent, maintain flexibility, and get more done. We’re passionate about our mission to create economic opportunities so people have better lives. Every year, more than $2 billion of work is done through Upwork by skilled professionals who want the freedom of working anytime, anywhere. Top companies connecting with extraordinary talent around the globe? Upwork is how.

This position is through Upwork’s Talent Innovation Program (TIP). Our TIP team is a global group of professionals that augment Upwork’s business. Our TIP team members are located all over the world.

Are you a Senior/Lead Software Engineer who is passionate about design and building highly performant, robust systems to create outstanding user experiences and helping impact the professional lives of millions of independent professionals and clients around the world? Do you relish solving important problems? Do you enjoy identifying potential scalability issues, implementing solutions that follow engineering standard methodologies, and coming up with creative solutions to both technical and product challenges? If so, we’d love to hear from you!

This is a Contract position through Upwork’s Talent Innovation Program (TIP). Our TIP team is a global group of engineers that augment Upwork’s business.

This role is a long-term contract position.

Work/Project Scope

• You will be working with Engineering teams, Product Managers, and Designers to build outstanding products for our users!
• Our setup requires collaborative work which includes code reviews and writing supporting documentation
• You’ll share the ownership of our code domain and will actively work to increase its quality and reduce technical debt

Must Haves (Required Skills)

• Solid software development experience using Java
• Extensive knowledge of REST
• Experience in writing well-structured, easily maintainable unit tests (such as JUnit, Mockito, etc)
• Experience with relational databases
• Consistent track record of collaborating with large, distributed teams of engineers over documentation and code
• A desire to learn new technologies and continually develop your professional skills
• Comfortable working with AWS
• Experience building / supporting high load web applications and solving scalability issues

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