Junior Java Engineer at Zoolatech (vacancy inactive)

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Our partner is one of the largest retail e-commerce companies in North America, serving millions of customers every year.
You’ll join the Enterprise Payments and Gift Card Team, which sits at the core of Nordstrom’s checkout and post-purchase experience.
The platform processes millions of transactions and billions of dollars annually, enabling seamless omnichannel payments, gift cards, refunds, and cancellations.
This is a great opportunity to learn how large-scale, high-availability payment systems are built and operated in production.
Participate in agile ceremonies (planning, stand-ups, retrospectives).
Develop and maintain backend services and APIs under guidance from senior engineers.
Write clean, maintainable, and secure code for RESTful and event-driven systems.
Collaborate on designs and understand how individual components fit into larger systems.
Create and maintain automated tests (unit, integration, basic end-to-end).
Monitor and help troubleshoot services using logs, metrics, and dashboards.
Learn and follow engineering best practices and coding standards.
Participate in code reviews and incorporate feedback.
1–2 years of experience in software development (or strong internships / projects).
Solid understanding of: Object-oriented programming, Data structures and basic algorithms, Experience with Java or another object-oriented language.
Basic familiarity with: REST APIs, Backend frameworks (e.g., Spring Boot), Understanding of relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL).
Exposure to cloud concepts (AWS is a plus).
Willingness to learn CI/CD, monitoring, and distributed systems.