Staff SW Engineer

• Design and develop mission-critical systems, delivering high-availability and performance.
• Work on development of new products and enhancements to existing systems iteratively by building quick POCs and converting ideas into real products.
• Work closely with architects, business, and technical stakeholders to develop high quality products and services that meet business requirements and expectations while applying the latest available tools and technology.
• Instill best practices for software development and deliver high quality work on tight schedules.
• Monitor health of the platforms and Generate Performance Reports and Monitor and provide continuous improvements.
• Identify opportunities for further enhancements and refinements to standards and processes
• Coordinate Continuous Integration activities, testing automation frameworks, and other related items in addition to contributing core product code.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Requirements

Basic Qualifications
* 5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications
*6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
* 8+ years of software development experience, with demonstrated expertise in leveraging development best practice methodologies and at least 2+ years’ experience in a lead role.
* Expert in one of the Java or Scala programming language
* Experience with event based systems
* Expert in Developing Microservices and REST APIs with Spring Boot
* Experience in Building Low Latency and High Performing Data APIs to serve Petabytes of data.
* Dockers & Kubernetes Container experience
* Experience in streaming technologies Apache Kafka, Apache flume, Apache Nifi and Apache Flink.
* Strong foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms and software design optimized for building highly distributed and parallelized systems
* Experience in GIT, Maven, Jenkins build tools.
* Solid understanding of distributed system concepts, non-functional requirements like logging, monitoring, debugging, alerting, performance.
* Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills.
* Passionate about delivering zero defect code that meet or exceed the proposed defect SLA and have high sense of accountability for quality and timeliness.
* Ability to deliver on multiple projects and manage priorities based on changing directions.
* Excellent presentation, collaboration and communication skills required.
* Experience being part of an Agile/Scrum team and following processes.