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# Senior Software Engineer- Cloud Services

- **Company:** ROBERTS RECRUITING, LLC
- **Location:** Lexington, MA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Data Analysis, Apache HTTP Server, Application Layers, Unix, Software as a Service, Apache Lucene, Computer Programming, Distributed Systems, Django Web Framework, Apache HBase, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Python (Programming Language), MySQL, Nginx, NoSQL, Oracle (Applications), Play Framework, Systems Development Life Cycle, Redis, Cloud Services, Application Data, Software Engineering, Transaction Data, Web Services, Data Processing, System Availability, Apache Spark, Backend, Heroku, Information Technology, Cassandra, Apache Kafka, Mahout
- **Published:** October 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/senior-software-engineer-cloud-services-lexington-ma--473638ae-a651-447e-b5d6-32258ac5371c

## About the Role

Software Engineering, Software as a Service (SaaS), Medicine, High Availability, Application Programming Interface (API), Scalable System Development, Leading Edge Technology, Web Services, Data Analysis, Software Development, * BS or MS Degree in Computer Science

 * 5+ years building scalable web applications / web services.
 * Ability to effectively and independently own areas of development and contribute to
 * development deliverables as part of a team.
 * Strong communication / internal service skills

Technical

 * OS / STACK:
 + Experience and familiarity using UNIX based systems
 + Experience on services running behind Apache or Nginx proxies
 * BACK END PROGRAMMING:
 + Java experience is a must
 + Scala experience is a big plus
 + Python experience would be desirable
 * DESIRABLE FRAMEWORKS:
 + Play Framework for Java/Scala
 + Django for Python
 * STORAGE:
 + Experience with NoSQL tools is required (Cassandra, Hbase, Redis or similar)
 + Experience working with relational databased is required (MySQL, Oracle or similar)
 * COMPUTING:
 + Experience with clustering / distributed systems (Spark, Mahout, Lucene, Kafka, Storm or similar)
 * PLATFORM:
 + Familiarity with IaaS and platform vendors
 + AWS stack - including EC2 and S3
 + Heroku, othe

## Description

Our smart sensors produce huge amounts of data that needs to be tracked, stored and processed in both real time and batch. The goal: help our users with helpful and meaningful feedback as well as medicine and science through aggregate knowledge/patterns extraction.
In order to make this possible, a scalable, highly available backend and API are required. We need a team of passionate "A-team" engineers to help us build and nurture them as they grow.
If you blend deep technical knowledge with enthusiasm about state-of-the-art technology and you have experience building scalable, high-volume web services and/or data analytics solutions in a fast growing environment, we would very much like to speak with you about a Software Development role here!
Role and Responsibilities

 * Architect and develop data processing application layer for scalable SaaS platform
 * responsible for I/O of biometric, lifestyle data and transactional data.
 * Specify and implement APIs and other I/O interfaces for data queuing, NoSQL storage, and application-to-application data exchange.
 * Communicate and work closely with management to schedule and drive delivery of feature sets, estimate task timeframes, and follow agile iteration processes.
 * Research and evaluate new technologies to be used as enhancements or upgrades to existing server clusters, computing applications and other IT infrastructure components.
 * Document code and maintain applications as new functionality is developed and new deployments and revisions rolled out.