Backend Engineer - Junior or Senior Consultant

About EY:

EY, a global leader operating in more than 150 countries delivers unparalleled service in Consulting and assists clients to transform and upskill their capabilities.

We serve our clients to build a better working world, helping them to create long-term value for people and society and build trust in the capital markets. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities, and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime. And with a commitment to hiring and developing the most passionate people, we work towards our ambition to be the best employer.

EY advises clients to understand, architect, select and implement bleeding-edge solutions required to efficiently run their businesses, with a focus on Digital and Cloud. These service areas span E-commerce, Solution Architecture, Mobile Applications, Digital Platform Architecture, Digital Technology Strategy, and Digital IT Operations.

The exceptional EY experience. It’s yours to build.

The opportunity:

The Digital & Emerging Technology team works collaboratively with clients to transform their business through disruptive innovation enablement and transformational design solutions. The team supports our clients in modernizing systems, processes and products to enhance business and customer-facing platforms and services to support high performance in a rapidly changing and competitive environment. Our team helps clients sustain competitive advantage and profitability by developing technology strategies, products, and solutions to stay ahead of the rapid pace of change and disruption and supporting the execution of complex transformations.

We're seeking a highly skilled and experienced Backend Engineer to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining scalable and high-performance backend systems. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including front-end developers, product managers, and QA engineers, to deliver robust and efficient solutions. While our teams primary focus is within the financial services industries, you will have opportunities to support other sectors including healthcare, automotive, high-tech, and media.

Your key responsibilities: 

The goal is to support our clients to transform their business through technology. As a Backend Engineer you will be collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features, identify and address performance bottlenecks in the backend systems, design and optimize database schemas, develop and maintain RESTful APIs for seamless communication between front-end and back-end systems, write unit tests and participate in code reviews, collaborate with technical writers to create user and developer documentation, and operating your team's software systems in a consistently high quality manner. When working on the systems within your team's domain, you take into account the appropriate architectural patterns, code design, and infrastructure options, ensuring that you deliver a system that is secure, reliable, maintainable, extensible and very well tested. Beyond delivery to the production system, engineers will be responsible for post deployment monitoring as well.

In addition to being trusted to operate independently, you also maintain a good partnership with your technical and non-technical stakeholders for projects that you are involved in. You take an active role in your projects as a team member involved in product design to rollout, taking ownership of your work and constantly focusing on moving these projects forward.

Being an experienced team member, you are also expected to continuously help the team grow and improve either by mentoring new or junior members of your team or by introducing and adopting process improvements.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree (Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Mathematics) or related experience
• 1-3 years of Development experience
• Strong knowledge of algorithms and data structures
• Fluency in developing and understanding sequence diagrams, class models, etc.
• Strong proficiency in programming languages such as Java, C# .Net,  or Golang.
• Solid understanding of database systems, both relational and NoSQL.
• Strong in fundamental programming like SOLID Principle, Clean Architecture or related fundamental knowledge and practices
• Experience in writing maintainable and testable code, including API design, unit testing and UI testing techniques.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process.
• Humble and hungry engineer. Always curious, always looking for a better way
• Highly accountable and takes ownership of one's own work.

For senior software engineer:

• 4+ years of professional backend software development experience
• Experience with Event-Driven Architecture such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Familiarity with cloud services (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Knowledge of containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Possess excellent communication, sharp analytical abilities with proven design skills, able to think critically of the current system in terms of growth and stability
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Familiarity with modern build pipelines and tools
• Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues

What we look for 

We’re interested in passionate individuals with a strong vision and a desire to stay on top of trends. If you have a genuine passion for helping businesses achieve their full potential, then these role(s) are for you. 

What we offer

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, on your way
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching, and confidence to be the leader the world needs
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

EY is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer providing equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other legally protected basis, including arrest and conviction records, by applicable law.

EY is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with special needs. If you are a qualified individual with special needs and need assistance applying online or need to request an accommodation during the interview process, please speak to our HR executives, and we will be happy to help you.