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Software Development Engineer - Backend

Posted about 1 month ago

Title: Software Development Engineer - Backend

Location: Kirkland, WA

Type: Contract

 

SCOPE

Software Development Engineer to help drive innovation, flexibility and standards. Work with dedicated teams in the development / enhancement of statistical road and traffic engines using data (historical, real time), data-sets, data analysis applications, products (GIS), patterns, predictive analysis, mobile-based visualizations of real time systems as well as company standards, best practices, processes and procedures.

 

SKILLS / REQUIREMENTS

  • 6+ years’ experience in production level software development, architecture and design.
  • Knowledge of AWS services (Kinesis, ECS, RDS, ElastiCache).
  • Writing services, APIs, performance, scalability, etc.
  • AWS environment experience (Cloud services, EC2, CloudWatch).
  • Must have experience that reflects Java (at least 80%), C#, Scala.

 

DESIRED

  • Scala, T-SQL, Athena, Hadoop, MapReduce, Lambda, Splunk, Jira, GitHub, Ansible, Data Pipeline, Glue. Knowledge or willingness to learn data ingestion, data processing / ETL, data partitioning, data storage and data management.

 

TASKS / DUTIES

  • Work with large amounts of data to build efficient, high availability backend infrastructures.
  • Create thoughtful, efficient and durable code design.
  • Build systems that operate at large scale, run reliably and efficiently.
  • Handle production and operations work as required.
  • Perform coding, assessment of the various systems (how things work), handle routine maintenance.
  • Automation and the running of established processes and pipelines.
  • Troubleshoot and handle investigations for customers.
  • Bug fixes, feature enhancements.
  • Assist team focus on main product development.
  • Keep things running smoothly, work towards systems / application improvements and advancements.

 

ABILITY

  • Technical leadership and the ability to collaborate across teams.
  • Hands-on, high level people, communications and presentation skills.
  • Work with and utilize a diverse set of products.
  • Hit the ground running with a focus on keyboard work and getting listed priorities completed.
  • Think from a high level, (strategic and systematic thought is required for success).
  • Understands business value, should work more to help solve business problems, work less to just add technology.
  • Take on more duties, add to contribution value in time.
  • Work independently with minimal supervision and iteration.

 

EDUCATION

  • Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science (or related), equivalent work experience will be considered, associated certifications and training a plus.