Senior Engineer

Accertify is the trusted partner to the world's leading brands. With industry-leading fraud prevention, chargebacks, and account protection offerings, we help our clients grow revenue and protect against loss. When you join Accertify, you become part of the digital solution to enable commerce across the globe. Team Accertify provides a solution merchants trust and a career you can trust.

Join us on our mission—and build a career you can trust.

Accertify is growing, and we are looking to add a Senior Engineer to our global fraud-fighting team.

How will you make an impact in this role?
The Senior Engineer will use their software development background and strong analytical skills to help build and enhance Accertify’s industry-leading fraud protection platform and products used by the world's biggest brands. This individual’s day-to-day work will involve the use of Java, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, SQL, Linux, git, and gradle to design and build software solutions that are fast, scalable, and flexible.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work with business representatives, Lead Developers, and the Director of Software Development to design, build, and test new products and features
• Use IntelliJ to write code in Java, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
• Work independently or on small team projects
• Participate in requirement gathering and design sessions
• Participate in peer code reviews
• Troubleshoot and optimize code for usability, performance, and scalability

Minimum Qualifications:

• Very strong and validated analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills
• High-volume transactional environment experience
• Three years of related software development experience as a Java developer
• Proven experience as a Java Developer using the Spring Boot framework 
• Excellent JavaScript skills using JavaScript ES6
• A confirmed understanding of "how things work" in the world of computers, the Internet, databases, and the Java programming language
• Familiarity with basic programming constructs (conditionals, loops, data structures)
• Strong Relational database skills (SQL, JDBC – Oracle, MySQL, or Postgres preferred), NoSQL databases, and the ability to troubleshoot and optimize slower queries

Preferred Qualifications:

• Exposure to modern front-end technologies - CSS, AngularJS, Bootstrap
• Linux, macOS, HTML5, SpringMVC, and Git
• Familiar with Gradle/dependency libraries such as Spring Data, Hibernate, JDBC, Redis, Drools, Cryptography, Scylla DB Cassandara/AWS Keyspaces or S3, and Kafka is a plus
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field is strongly preferred
• Potential salary range: $110,00-150,000. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Additional Details: 

• This role is eligible for remote US-based (work-from-home) locations. Chicago-based candidates would work in a hybrid (3 days in office) capacity from the Accertify HQ located in Itasca, IL
• Visa Sponsorship: employment eligibility to work for Accertify in the U.S. is required, as Accertify will not pursue Visa sponsorship for this position.

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