Sr Java / AWS Engineer

Our Client in Seattle is looking for

Sr Java / AWS Engineer

It is a fulltime position with salary ~$160K

Position Summary

Are you interested in pioneering the next generation of real time processing of high volume streaming data? Are you interested in building out a scalable and reliable technology platform that will act as a business enabler to the global organization? The platform we are building can power real-time services, dashboards, generate alerts, and drive real time business decisions

The product development team in Seattle is expanding to help realize this vision, and searching for engineers at all levels with expertise building large scale distributed systems. We are looking for candidates that are entrepreneurial, have a strong sense of ownership, and are highly motivated with their own opinions who want to shape product and implement pioneering technology that matters to consumers.

Main responsibilities

• Work closely with product owners and engineers to design, implement, test and continually improve low latency and highly scalable web applications and services running on AWS.
• Develop products using agile methods and tools.
• Develop commercial grade software that is user friendly and suitable for global audience.
• Support production issues both directly and indirectly with customers.
• Investigate, evaluate, and present new technologies for use with web applications/services.
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews of your work and the work of your peer engineers.
• Participate in architecture and design efforts across multiple teams, across multiple divisions.
• Be a technical lead for key complex systems or services, working closely with other engineers and testers to deliver high quality software on time.
• Mentor and assist other engineers in or out of your areas of ownership and expertise.
• B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Fluency with Java
• 5+ years software development experience building low latency and highly scalable commercial web applications or services.
• 3+ years’ experience with Linux, and Linux based scripting.
• Exceptional system design and programming ability.
• Highly entrepreneurial, flexible and hard working – willing to go the extra mile or two to “get things done with high quality”.

Preferred qualifications

• 2+ years using AWS in production software.
• Experience building extremely high volume and highly scalable web services
• Experience building highly available systems and operating 24×7 services
• Experience with distributed systems
• Working knowledge of Hadoop, MapReduce or other Big Data processing platforms
• Strong understanding of data modeling techniques using relational and non-relational techniques.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $160,000.00 /year

Job Location:

• Seattle, WA

Required education:

• Bachelor’s

Required experience:

• Linux/Unix: 3 years
• Java: 5 years
• AWS: 2 years