3M Principal Backend Engineer 

United States, Minnesota 

688328293

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

As a Principal Backend Software Engineer, you will have the opportunity for designing, developing, and maintaining the backend solutions that support our R&D Enterprise and Departmental platforms and applications to ensure seamless integration, robust backend services, and a secure, highly-available backend environment. In this role you will:

• Lead the architectural design and implementation of scalable, efficient, and fault-tolerant backend services.
• Architect, design, and develop robust microservices and APIs to support software activities.
• Continuously monitor and optimize backend services for performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
• Implement robust monitoring and alerting and ensure backend services adhere to the highest security standards
• Collaborate with and across agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support platform solutions and technologies in a matrixed organization.
• Design and force best practices for software development, code quality and standards, testing strategies, system architecture, and to ensure the delivery of high-quality, well-documented, maintainable code.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering collaboration and conducting code reviews
• Deliver technical presentations and demonstrations to stakeholders, team members, and leadership, effectively communicating complex architectural concepts and implementation strategies.
• Research and explore new technologies and methodologies to drive continuous improvement and evolution of our tech stack

Your Skills and Expertise

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field from an accredited university (completed and verified prior to start).
• Twelve (12) years of professional backend software engineering experience in a private, public, government or military environment
• Proven expertise in backend frameworks and languages with five (5) or more years experience with some or all of the following (such as TypeScript, Node.js, Express, Python, JavaScript/EMCAScript, Unix Shell Scripting, React, and ASP.NET)
• Five (5) years of experience designing and implementing microservices architectures
• Three (3) years of experience deploying and managing scalable, containerized applications in Kubernetes.
• Five (5) years of hands-on experience with AWS Cloud Services (or GCP, Azure), including Lambda, EKS, ECS, S3, MSK, IAM, AppSync, CloudTrail
• Five (5) years of experience designing, developing, and maintaining scalable RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs
• Proficient CI/CD expertise and hands-on experience with tools like Jenkins, CodeBuild, or GitHub Actions

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• Strong knowledge of OAuth, OIDC (JWT, PKCE, M2M), LDAP, AWS IAM, and identity management protocols.
• Hands-on experience with Temporal.io or Airflow for workflow orchestration.
• Hands-on experience with relational SQL (Postgres) and NoSQL (DynamoDB) databases.
• Experience with observability and monitoring using CloudWatch, Prometheus, and ELK Stack.
• Strong experience with Testing Frameworks and tools (Jest, ViTest, LoadRunner, ts-rest, Zod)
• Experience with GraphQL, gRPC
• Experience integrating. GenAi/LLM driven features into backend systems using APIs and vector stores, in collaboration with Data/ML teams.
• Familiarity with data mesh concepts and principles.
• Good experience with agile development processes and concepts with leveraging project management tools like JIRA and Confluence.
• Strong leadership and mentorship abilities.
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills.

Location:

• Hybrid to Maplewood, MN preferred, remote possible within the United States

Please note: your application may not be considered if you do not provide your education and work history, either by: 1) uploading a resume, or 2) entering the information into the application fields directly.

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