A NASDAQ-listed company fostering solid connections among people in different areas like education, philanthropy, business, or creativity, is looking for a Senior Software Platform Engineer. The selected candidate will bring technical expertise to the leadership team, feedback on the recommended solutions, and new design ideas. The organization is forming teams to expand the technology solutions in areas like mobile, cloud, security, IT, and big data, as well as software and consulting services. This position requires a significant overlap with the PST time zone.
Job Responsibilities:
- Create high-performance, scalable, complex, and distributed systems
- Identify simple solutions to complex problems
- Create an integration platform using a highly modular microservices framework to connect discrete, heterogeneous, streaming, high-volume, large scale, multi-cloud ready internal and external systems
- Contribute to a codebase that is future-ready, high-quality, and performant
- Bring technical solutions to the leadership team, as well as feedback on recommended solutions and new product ideas to the team
- Participate in design and code reviews, pair programming, and tech talk
- Capability to share technical solutions and product ideas with the larger team via design review, code review, proofs-of-concept, and show and tell
- Participate in brainstorming sessions and offer suggestions on the technology, algorithms, and products
Job Requirements:
- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
- At least 8+ years of relevant experience in software development
- Extensive experience designing and developing platforms, frameworks, and components for highly scalable, high performing distributed systems
- Expertise in the modern stacks like Stream processing, micro-services development, and API (REST)
- Proficiency in either Java, Python, or Go is required
- Experience in API Gateways and REST-based services (server and client-side)
- A solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design is required
- Familiarity with Cloud and development, as well as build tools like Jenkins, Gradle/SBT/Maven, GIT, AWS/Azure/GCP is a must
- Exposure to SQL/NoSQL databases, including Elastic Search, Postgres, MongoDB, Graph databases, and queries / GraphQL is required
- Understanding extensive, high performance, real-time, cloud-agnostic platforms and solutions is a must
- Expertise in building modular, metadata-driven components that clearly demonstrate their server-side and client-side responsibilities and capabilities is required
- Must have an experience in multi-tenant system design, cloud and container-based deployments, API Gateways, integrations, and workflows
- Strong verbal and written, documentation and presentation skills