Senior Software Engineer

Qualifications

Required Education and Experience 

Applicants must meet one of the following education and experience requirements: 

* 5 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree {CS, CE, IS, EE} or its equivalent or 

* 3 years of relevant experience and a Master’s degree {CS, CE, IS, EE} or 

* a PhD {CS, CE, IS, EE}  

Required Skills 

* 5+ years experience in Web development using Java. 

* 5+ years of experience building highly available web applications with Java

* 5+ years of experience developing software in a Linux or Unix environment. 

* 5+ years of experience with web application development, patterns, and frameworks (e.g., REST, Spring, Angular, etc.).  

* 3+ years experience working in Enterprise environments/technology

Desired Qualifications

* Desire to lead and own projects in a fast-paced, high-visibility and high-accountability environment.  * Rock-solid backend Java development 

* Knows and can apply OO and best practices in Java and understands performance issues related to web development

* Familiar with modern Java frameworks like Spring and/or others. 

* Python development 

* Understanding of scalability challenges and performance of server-side code. 

* Can design and develop horizontally scalable, resilient and high performance REST services.      

* Experience with JSON

* Comfortable with SQL databases and replication schemes to enable high availability with failover.  

* Passionate about quality and can engineer it at all stages of software development 

* Able to design secure distributed systems and assure operational processes around security. 

* Expert in practical aspects of running Scrum (or other agile methodologies) within a team and in a distributed cross-team environment

* Proven ability with design principles and pattern oriented software architecture 

* Excellent verbal and written communication skills  

* Understanding of internet protocols