Senior Software Engineer
Posted Sep 24, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Tell me about a move from a monolith to microservices you were part of. What went well and what would you do differently?
What they are checking: Whether they have lived through a real migration and learned its costs, not just read about microservices in theory.
Tell me about a time you gave technical guidance to a teammate who was stuck or heading the wrong way.
What they are checking: Whether they can guide other engineers well, coaching them toward the answer instead of simply taking over the work.
Tell me about a production incident you helped resolve. What did the team change afterward?
What they are checking: Whether they own incidents calmly and push for lasting fixes rather than moving on once the alarm stops.
How do you keep code review useful on a team where people have very different experience levels?
What they are checking: Whether they use reviews to raise quality and teach, without becoming a bottleneck or nitpicking style.
What would you do
A teammate wants to add a new microservice for a small feature. How do you decide whether it should be its own service?
What they are checking: Whether they weigh operational cost against benefit instead of splitting services by default.
Uline's software supports warehouse management and e-commerce. How would that change how you plan a deployment during peak season?
What they are checking: Whether they think about business impact and timing, not just technical correctness, when releasing changes.
About the work
What does it take for a Spring Boot service to be truly always-on when running on OpenShift?
What they are checking: Whether they know about health probes, graceful shutdown, replicas and statelessness, which keep services up through deploys and failures.
With thousands of microservices, how do you find the cause of a slow customer request using tools like DynaTrace, Grafana or the Elastic Stack?
What they are checking: Whether they can use tracing, metrics and logs together to trace a problem across services quickly.
Walk me through how a change gets from a merge to production in a GitOps pipeline built on Tekton and Argo CD.
What they are checking: Whether they understand Git as the source of truth for deployments and how pipeline and sync tools divide the work.
One downstream service starts timing out and is dragging down others. How do you design to keep that from cascading?
What they are checking: Whether they know resilience patterns like timeouts, circuit breakers, retries with backoff and bulkheads, and when each fits.
How do you secure service-to-service communication and secrets in a cloud-native Java application?
What they are checking: Whether they treat security as part of building services, which the posting names explicitly, rather than something added later.
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