Sr. Software Engineer-Remote

Please Contact: To discuss this amazing opportunity, reach out to our Talent Acquisition Specialist Faizan Mohammed at email address Faizan.Mohammed@generistek.com can be reached on # 630-576-9037.

We have Contract role Sr. Software Engineer-Remote for our client at Chicago IL. Please let me know if you or any of your friends would be interested in this position.

Position Details:

Sr. Software Engineer-Remote-Chicago IL

Location : Remote

Project Duration : 6 months of contract

Pay rate : $64 to $74 an hour on W2

We are looking for seasoned back-end developers who are passionate about technology and excited about the potential of AI-driven innovations in sports experiences. Join our growing team to help define and build our top-rated sport app.

Key team goals:

As a back-end developer, you’ll work with a team of talented engineers to design and build scalable, efficient systems that deliver real-time sports data, personalized experiences, and engaging fan interactions used by millions worldwide. If you’re passionate about building world-class technology and excited to push the boundaries of what’s possible in sports tech, we’d love to hear from you!

Key projects or initiatives for the role:

Sierra to Graphite migration: We serve our APIs to the mobile sports apps, some of our APIs use older versions of Data API that are being EOL. The data team has new APIs that we need to migrate to, they are not 100% compatible with the old one, so we need to work with them if some data is missing. Mobile clients shouldn’t be aware of this change.

Success metrics or KPIs for this role:

We should be able to migrate the APIs, depend on complexity, we hope to migrate 1-2 components / APIs per week

How is success measured?

Meeting deadlines, meeting goals and objectives. Delivering of features requests/change requests with quality in production.

Candidate Profile

• Must-have skills/qualifications (technical, soft skills, certifications, tools):
• 5 years of Java or Kotlin development experience, including building and supporting user-facing web products
• 5 years of experience with server-side API programming on Linux, focusing on scalable, high-performance web services
• Strong fundamentals in object-oriented design, design patterns, data structures, algorithm design, and problem-solving
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and cloud infrastructure
• Commitment to well-designed, well-documented code

Ideal experience level (years, leadership, industries):

• 8 years of experience
• Exceptional analytical aptitude and attention to detail
• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills
• Self-motivated, well-organized team player
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

Desired personality or work style:

• work independent, collaboration, communication skill, problem solver, fast paced environment, quick learner, accountable.
• A passion for sports and fantasy sports
• Experience developing GraphQL servers
• Expertise in highly available distributed data services
• Experience with AWS services like S3, Dynamo DB, SQS, API Gateway
• Experience in using AI to develop code and solve problem

Key attributes or values sought in the candidate:

work as a team. Build solutions that are maintainable. Quality driven. Flexible and adaptable.

Primary responsibilities (daily/weekly):

• Write code with tests for migrating APIs implementation.
• Follow up end to end with migration:
• Decide which API should be the best to migrate first Work with Data team on missing parts
• Create PR with the change (include testing and feature flag)
• Verify the change on stage environment
• Applying the change in prod and monitor for crashes / missing data

To discuss this amazing opportunity, reach out to our Talent Acquisition Specialist Faizan Mohammed at email address Faizan.Mohammed@generistek.com can be reached on # 630-576-9037.