Backend Software Engineer Intern (Virtual) - Summer 2021

At Backcountry, we are looking for passionate students who are eager to learn while solving real world software challenges. We offer you a complete experience on every stage of the software development lifecycle, you will work with our product owners and business partners to identify their needs and define their requirements, work with an experienced engineering team to design the solution, implement it, release it and also complement your great work by automating your solution monitoring.

As an Intern, you will play an integral role in improving our customers shopping experience and contribute to Backcountry's continued success. You’ll work across our systems building features that enhance our site at a scale of millions of visits/month, optimizing business critical code and gathering and processing data to make sense of it.

We work with Java, Scala, NodeJS, Perl and Python, building robust applications running in Spring, Camel and other frameworks, using database engines just like PostgreSQL, MongoDB in between others. You will find a variety of architectures and scalable patterns in our high demand services and applications.

About the Job:

• Build first citizen class solutions based on a solid foundation with market standard technologies.
• Develop micro-services, business tools and different types of backend jobs supporting our websites and business.
• Raise the bar. Share your ideas and experience with other engineers, and advocate for best practices, great usability and exceptional quality.
• Work with product managers to understand the users, their requirements and design scalable solutions to thrill customers.

About You:

• Passionate about backend end technologies, systems architectures, platforms, design patterns and frameworks such as Spring, Spring Boot, CAMEL.
• Passionate about designing and building software in any of the different object oriented and dynamic languages such as Java, Scala, Python and Perl.
• Knowledge of different data storage mechanisms (Relational Databases, Cloud Storage, NoSQL).
• Knowledge of back-end development and scalability of web applications.
• Familiar with micro-service architectures.
• Passion for test driven development, modular designs, and shipping quality code.
• Comfortable in a continuous delivery environment.
• Comfortable with automation tools and infrastructure as code.

Characteristics and Behaviors - Align with Leadership Competencies

• Obsess about gaining and maintaining customer trust. Always think about how you are improving the customer's life with what you are doing.
• True belief in serving great engineers and creating a team that is world-class. People should be able to look back at their time as part of your team and truly feel that it added value to their careers.
• Attitude of taking ownership and getting things done. While we would love for you to have the capability to consistently make good decisions, it is even more important that you accept responsibility when you’ve made bad ones.
• Be at the top of your game with a deep curiosity of the latest and greatest in technology and infrastructure with a bias towards self-education when faced with unfamiliar technologies, problems, or objectives.
• Have a backbone! Strongly advocate your beliefs of what is best for Backcountry. You state your opinions and disagreements directly by remaining candid as well as apolitical.
• Relentlessly escalate the decisions you are most concerned about; escalation trumps compromise. Yet, once a decision is made, you wholeheartedly commit to it as if it were your own.
• Willing to learn, receive feedback as you move forward.

Why join the Backcountry Engineering Team?

The best place to do cutting edge technology work and embrace an outdoor lifestyle!

Cutting Edge Technology & Proven Systems: We are committed to owning our technology and constantly evolving to keep pace with modern tools, frameworks, and architecture patterns. We’re actively replacing legacy systems with brand new technology, and there are no arbitrary standards about what technologies are acceptable.

“I like that we own and implement many of our core software systems in-house. It puts us in control of our destiny.”

Make an Impact: Our engineers are creative professionals, not order-takers or code monkeys, and they play a significant part in solving important problems at Backcountry. Any developer in the company can get passionate about something new, start using it, and get others excited about getting it into production; if you can convince other people it’s a good idea, you can do it.

“We are designing and building the foundation of the next generation of software for the company. This is an exciting opportunity (that is rare in an established company) to have a fundamental impact on the design and direction of the future software”

Grow, Stretch & Master: Curiosity is king; we delight in opportunities to take on new challenges and learn new ways of solving problems. There are endless opportunities to stretch your skill sets, take on new challenges, become better leaders, solve difficult problems in elegant ways, and build your career.

“Healthy culture within our Engineering department of continuously learning and keeping aware of new tech”

Talent Community & Outdoor Lifestyle: On any given day, you’ll find groups of employees backcountry skiing before coming into work, trail running during lunch, taking a happy hour bike ride, or returning from a kayaking trip. Your coworkers work hard, play hard, and relish in the opportunity to encourage others to try a new outdoor pursuit. There is no better company in the world to feed your passion for technology and the outdoors.

“The ability to be creative and adventurous technically here is rare and awesome.”

About Backcountry

Backcountry is the leading online retailer of premium outdoor gear. Our mission at Backcountry, why we exist, is to connect people to their passions. We create remarkable customer experiences through the best selection of outdoor products, a flawless shopping experience, the expertise of our gearheads, the lightning speed of our fulfillment, and the shared knowledge of our Community. We operate six online specialty stores – Backcountry, Competitive Cyclist, MotoSport, Bergfreunde, SteepandCheap, and WhiskeyMilitia.

Check us out in action here:

• “Outsiders Wanted” http://vimeo.com/66934529
• “This is Backcountry” http://bit.ly/ThisIsBackcountry