Software Engineer III

Responsible for building outstanding software solutions to drive the success of a business. Build various aspects of the company's infrastructure to power innumerable conversations at scale.

Primary Responsibilities:

Maintain the company platform uptime, performance, stability, and scalability

Design, guide, mentor and challenge system architecture and design with others

Develop and maintain a public API

Develop best possible, most robust, and extensible solutions from feature requests

Work with big data technology (Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, etc)

Work with Data Scientists to develop rich value-added features

Work with DBA to create ETL and Data Warehouse system

Work with Operations to automate solutions and increase service reliability

Closely monitor all platform related production systems

Building tools and processes to support analytics, monitoring, machine-learning and data-warehousing platforms.

Define and implement various strategies covering everything from subnets to backups to fog networking/computing configuration and deployments.

Provision, configure, maintain, backup, and monitor onsite and cloud based server resources.

Define and implement deployment strategies for client-facing and internal tool systems.

Continual improvement and fine-tuning of various alerting and monitoring systems.

Experience in software/systems development.

Strong software development background, experience building software systems.

Working knowledge of at least one of the following languages: PHP, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Elixir, Go or comparable.

Strong background in Linux administration.

Strong experience with cloud providers such as AWS, Digital Ocean, Google Cloud, etc.

Strong understanding of IT security best practices.

Experience with automation/configuration software (puppet, ansible), and/or orchestration software (docker swarm, kubernetes, etc).

Understanding of computer networks.

Experience with administration of at production scale.

Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.