Senior Software Engineer- Cloud Services

Roberts Recruiting • Lexington, MA

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About The Position

Our smart sensors produce huge amounts of data that needs to be tracked, stored and processed in both real time and batch. The goal: help our users with helpful and meaningful feedback as well as medicine and science through aggregate knowledge/patterns extraction. In order to make this possible, a scalable, highly available backend and API are required. We need a team of passionate “A-team” engineers to help us build and nurture them as they grow. If you blend deep technical knowledge with enthusiasm about state-of-the-art technology and you have experience building scalable, high-volume web services and/or data analytics solutions in a fast growing environment, we would very much like to speak with you about a Software Development role here!

Requirements

• BS or MS Degree in Computer Science
• 5+ years building scalable web applications / web services.
• Ability to effectively and independently own areas of development and contribute to development deliverables as part of a team.
• Strong communication / internal service skills
• Experience and familiarity using UNIX based systems
• Experience on services running behind Apache or Nginx proxies
• Java experience is a must
• Experience with NoSQL tools is required (Cassandra, Hbase, Redis or similar)
• Experience working with relational databased is required (MySQL, Oracle or similar)
• Experience with clustering / distributed systems (Spark, Mahout, Lucene, Kafka, Storm or similar)
• Familiarity with IaaS and platform vendors AWS stack – including EC2 and S3
• Heroku

Nice To Haves

• Scala experience is a big plus
• Python experience would be desirable
• Play Framework for Java/Scala
• Django for Python

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop data processing application layer for scalable SaaS platform responsible for I/O of biometric, lifestyle data and transactional data.
• Specify and implement APIs and other I/O interfaces for data queuing, NoSQL storage, and application-to-application data exchange.
• Communicate and work closely with management to schedule and drive delivery of feature sets, estimate task timeframes, and follow agile iteration processes.
• Research and evaluate new technologies to be used as enhancements or upgrades to existing server clusters, computing applications and other IT infrastructure components.
• Document code and maintain applications as new functionality is developed and new deployments and revisions rolled out.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior