Senior Software Engineer

Role Overview

As a Senior Software Engineer at Kobie, you’ll improve and extend a production Java/Angular platform that powers loyalty integrations. You’ll help solve performance and reliability issues, mature the SDLC, and collaborate with product owners and engineers to deliver features and acceptance criteria.

Responsibilities

• Make rapid improvements to the existing Java/Angular codebase to address production problems
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks
• Help institute a more mature SDLC
• Work with loyalty platform integration points (live APIs, batch, and queue-based processing)
• Participate in design sessions and collaborate with product owners to meet acceptance criteria
• Build and maintain configuration and business logic rule documentation
• Coach and mentor team members; promote good coding practices and patterns
• Provide accurate time estimates and scope for tasks/projects
• Develop simple solutions to complex problems and suggest process/component improvements
• Coordinate effectively with other groups and third parties

Requirements

• 5+ years designing and developing applications/components with Java and Spring (prefer JDK 11+ and Spring Boot)
• 3+ years building RESTful services using JSON
• 3+ years developing microservice cloud applications on Oracle, AWS, or Azure
• 3+ years writing SQL multi-table queries, inserts, and updates (prefer Oracle/PostgreSQL)
• Experience tuning SQL using execution explain plans
• Familiarity with Agile (e.g., Scrum)
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field (preferred)

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with Loyalty, Accounting, or Banking applications
• Message queues (RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Kafka Streams)
• Docker and Kubernetes (kubectl, Docker for Desktop)
• Build/management tools (Bitbucket/Git, Gradle, Bamboo)

Work & Location

• Located in Chicago, IL
• Mentions a flexible/remote-friendly environment (“work remotely / from anywhere”), but no explicit remote policy is stated for this role.