Senior Back End Developer (Application Support Engineer)

Job Title: L2 Application Support Engineer

Experience: 3-5 Years

Responsibilities

• Investigate & Resolve: Triage, investigate, and resolve complex issues within the TypeScript-based Node Middleware and a Java Backend.
• API Troubleshooting: Serve as the expert for API issues, analyzing data flow, authentication, and transaction integrity. Including REST APIs, Databases and asynchronous webhooks.
• Backend Analysis: Dive deep into application logs and performance metrics on AWS to diagnose issues related to the Java/Spring framework, server configuration, database interactions.
• Escalation Management: Clearly identify and document code-level bugs for escalation
• System Monitoring: Proactively monitor the health of the backend services using AWS tools (CloudWatch, EC2 metrics, API Gateway logs) to prevent outages and performance degradation.
• Documentation: Develop and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and standard operating procedures (SOPs)

Skills & Qualifications

Required Skills

• Backend Technologies: Strong understanding of application logic built with TypeScript and familiarity with backend environments using Java and the Spring Framework.
• API Expertise: Advanced skills in debugging complex REST API integrations, including analyzing headers, status codes, and error responses from multiple services.
• AWS Proficiency: Hands-on experience with key AWS services such as EC2, CloudWatch, RDS, and API Gateway.
• Analytical Skills: Superior ability to analyze logs, trace data flows across distributed systems, and pinpoint the root cause of backend issues.
• Ownership: A strong sense of ownership and a methodical approach to issue resolution in a critical production environment.
• Collaboration: Excellent communication skills for liaising between frontend support, development teams, and external partners.

Preferred Skills

• Database Skills: Proficiency in writing and analyzing SQL queries (e.g., on PostgreSQL, MySQL).
• Fintech Experience: Previous experience supporting applications in the payments, banking, or general fintech space.
• Containerization: Familiarity with Docker and the concepts of container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes/k8s).
• Scripting: Experience with shell scripting (e.g., Bash) for server-side analysis and automation.
• Support Tools: Experience with technical documentation tools like Confluence and ticketing systems like Jira.

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*Must be legally eligible to work in UK.