Java Developer

Responsibilities

• Create, manage, and operate a diverse set of Dev-Ops-related tools, processes, paradigms, and technologies that enable the creation and ongoing operation of the Signify IoT Platform.
• Focus on the creation of horizontal tools, technologies, and best-practices that enable and support all the IoT Platform engineering teams to build, debug, test, release, manage, and secure the IoT Platform’s modern, microservices-based cloud infrastructure.
• Collaborate in defining the methodologies and ways-of-working that will enable our fast-paced engineering teams to flourish as we collectively build-out the IoT Platform.
• Help promote and implement best practices and supporting tools/technologies for source control management, CI and CD architectures, performance, SLAs, security, audit, and monitoring that will be used by every engineer within the IoT Platform organization.
• Define common frameworks and software libraries, in various programming languages, that support the creation of efficient, scalable and highly available microservice-based architectures.
• Support with the management of the running IoT Platform system architecture.
• Troubleshoot issues and identify areas for continuous improvement with a particular emphasis on quality, performance, and security.
• Work closely with architects and technical product managers and other members of your team to translate overall system architecture and product requirements into well-designed, implemented, and tested software solutions.
• Help promote the adoption of best-in-class software engineering practices, frameworks, and tools.
• Provide guidance and feedback to other software developers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related Engineering is required, a Master’s degree is desirable.
• 8+ years of proven, hands-on track-record as a software engineer, focused on cloud-based systems.
• Mastery of a variety of programming languages – at least Java, Python, but knowledge of Golang or JavaScript (NodeJS) are desirable.
• Strong Java Development skills, preferably with Ver. 1.8.
• Proven track record developing cloud-based services (SaaS) and platforms (PaaS).
• Proven hands-on in-depth experience of AWS is required, both in terms of traditional technologies (e.g. EC2, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, …) as well as more recent cutting-edge paradims (e.g. Lambda, API Gateway, Fargate, …).
• Proven experience of developing microservices and complex microservice-based platform architectures.
• Excellent understanding of distributed systems, designing for scalability, performance, and availability.
• Experience of establishing non-functional best-practices and deploying supporting technologies for improving platform security (including audit) and reliability (latency, availability, scalability).
• Good knowledge of data persistence technologies including relational databases and no-SQL solutions.
• Excellent interpersonal and technical communication with peers, and non-peers alike, with a can-do attitude.
• 3+ years in teams applying modern agile software development practices.

Benefits

• A comprehensive healthcare package (medical, dental, vision)
• Disability and group term life insurance
• Health and flexible spending accounts
• A utilization bonus
• 401(k) with match
• Flexible time off for salaried employees
• Parenthood leave for salaried employees
• Flexible work arrangements