Application Platform Engineer

EXAMPLE'S INC.

New York, United States

4 days ago

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Role details

Contract type

Permanent contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Experience level

Expert

Experience required

5 years minimum

Working hours

Regular working hours

Job source

startup.jobs

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) Apache ActiveMQ Databases Data Structures Relational Databases DevOps MySQL NoSQL Open Source Technology Message Oriented Middleware Service-Oriented Architecture Web Application Frameworks

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Cassandra Apache Kafka

Job description

As a member of the App Platform team you get to play a few different roles:

Architect: We are the ones that know how our large system should fit together.

Developer: We write lots of code. Some is purely for prototyping and what passes the prototyping phase is made ready for production and used by nearly all server teams.

Consultant: We work closely with all the server teams to understand their needs and lend assistance with the infrastructure we have built.

Leader: We need to be vocal about our experiences to internal teams as well as the outside world through blog posts, presentations and open source contributions.

Requirements

5+ years of experience as a software engineer
Strong Java knowledge
Experience working with high traffic, scalable web applications
Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and framework internals
Ability to speak and write clearly and concisely
Ability to think creatively about solutions with a focus on the long term stability of our system.

Nice-to-Have

Experience with SOA
Experience with at least one relational database (e.g. MySQL) and one NoSQL database (e.g. Cassandra)
Familiarity with asynchronous messaging systems, such as Kafka and ActiveMQ
DevOps experience