Senior Java Engineer (Backend)

Senior Java Engineer

CData Software is looking for a Senior Java Engineer to join our engineering team. The candidate would build and maintain a large selection of data connectivity solutions for use in both on-premises and cloud environments for a leading data connectivity company.

Location(s): North Carolina Research Triangle or East Coast (preferred)

Key Duties & Responsibilities:

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Work within a project team that delivers a large selection of high-quality component solutions for use in desktops, middleware, and server platforms.
• Develop effective, defect free source code that meets business requirements and team standards.
• Propose technical alternatives for solving complex problems of data connectivity, including query execution optimization, caching, reliability, and similar.
• Develop unit test cases to verify code.
• Contribute to making the team more effective and efficient including:
  • Mentoring junior engineers joining the team.
  • Writing design documentation and specifications as required.
  • Proposing improvements to the code structure, testing process, and overall design that solve complex issues across multiple products.
• Participate and support the release process.
• Identify changes that make the system(s) more efficient and/or reduces operation or maintenance costs.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience with Java programming (Java 1.8 and up.)
• Experience writing testable code.
• Experience consuming REST and SOAP based web services, and parsing JSON/XML and similar formats.
• Experience with multi-threading and thread synchronization issues.
• Experience working with TCP-based protocols (HTTP/REST/SOAP, TCP Sockets) and parsing binary data (Protobuf, Arrow, or similar) is desirable.
• Experience connecting with a wide variety of relational and non-relational databases.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering.