Staff Software Engineer- Back end

In this Role, you’ll get to:

• Lead development of features, experiments, technical projects and complex systems
• Be a technical architect, mentor, and driver towards the right technology
• Continue to evolve our architecture and build better software
• Be a major contributor to our agile and scrum practices
• Get involved with software engineering and collaborate with server, other client, and infrastructure technical team members to build the best solution
• Constantly look for ways to improve our products, code-base and development practices
• Write great code and help others write great code
• Drive Technical decisions in the organization.

• 7+ years’ experience under your belt developing performance-critical applications that run in a production environment using Scala, Java or C#.
• Experience in leading projects, initiatives and/or teams, with full ownership of the systems involved
• Data platforms like SQL, Cassandra or Hadoop. You understand that different applications have different data requirements
• Good understanding of algorithms and data structures
• Strong coding ability
• You are passionate about the craft of software development and constantly work to improve your knowledge and skills
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills

• Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies
• Experience building large-scale distributed products
• Core engineering infrastructure tools like Git for source control, TeamCity for Continuous Integration and Puppet for deployment
• Hands-on experience working with technology like queueing systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, MSMQ), Spark, Hadoop, NoSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB), Play framework, Akka library