Java Software Engineer Backend - Mercury Business Services

Java Software Engineer (Backend)

We are on a mission to help life sciences and healthcare companies focus on what matters to them while we focus on simplifying and removing the friction in shipping.

We have a world-class team at Mercury Teknoloji A.Ş. in Türkiye (with offices in Izmir and Istanbul), a wholly owned subsidiary of Mercury Business Services headquartered in Boston, to develop a state-of-the-art shipping platform that provides the best user experience. Our platform will handle all time-critical and temperature-sensitive shipments as well as express package and freight shipments for life sciences and healthcare companies.

We are seeking a JavaSoftware Engineer (Backend) who is mission-critical in developing the backend of our new shipping platform to support our product initiatives from conception through launch and subsequent iterations. Working with customers across the US, Europe, and Asia, as well as our team, you will be responsible for creating and delivering Mercury signature software products and experiences that meet Mercury clients' needs, goals, and requirements for a seamless shipment experience.

You will report to the Software Engineering Manager, be a member of the cross-functional agile team, and work closely with the Engineering, Product, QA teams. You will collaborate closely with architects, developers, designers, analysts, and testers to ensure that our products are intuitive, easy to use, and convert our customers into raving fans of our shipping technology.

You will:

• Be a part of the cross-functional agile team contributing to the implementation of Mercury’s next-generation shipment platform by designing, documenting, coding, maintaining, refactoring, fixing, testing, and enjoying what you build.
• Work closely with a team of Product Managers and Architects to design and implement a scalable, secure, maintainable, and well-documented API platform for our clients.
• Work with DevOps engineers to design and test build pipelines, and to design and help code tools and scripts for deployment processes.
• Collaborate with Architects and DevOps engineers to design and/or code event data collection, notifications, and filters for observability
• Work with architects and front-end developers to establish microservices and APIs.
• Collaborate with the QA team to determine the best testing strategy, toolset, and QA practices for your backend production.
• Work in the Backend Chapter to ensure you continuously improve implementation practices, tech stack, standards, and third-party tools across all production teams.
• Collaborate with the Product Team in Boston, MA, to influence product requirements and the roadmap.
• Work with the Engineering team to ensure technical needs are met while maintaining a strong focus on usability.
• Conduct developer research with the client developers of the platfor