Principal Java Engineer

Job Summary: Recently we entered in a partnership with one of our preferred to clients for a large-scale migration into the GCP Cloud.  We’re seeking a highly skilled and experienced Principal Java Engineer to join our dynamic team. This person will in distributed systems multithreading infrastructure as code via terraform Cassandra or Spanner Docker Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). They’ll need excellent communication skills and the ability to solve complex problems independently and creatively.

Work Location: USA or Canada-Remote

Key Responsibilities

• Develop scalable and innovative robust Java code for information retrieval processing and ranking.

• Build enhance optimize and deploy tools workflows systems to process textual data for extraction of relevant information

• Improve information extraction using machine learning and natural language processing techniques

• Collaborate with team members and stakeholders ensuring clear understanding of technical requirements and project goals.

• Write detailed design documents develop comprehensive automated tests and coordinate automated deployments

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field of study.  Master’s degree is preferred.

• Prefer - Google Associate Cloud Engineer Certification or other Google Cloud Professional level certification.

• Minimum of 8+ years developing applications in core Java.

• In-depth knowledge of algorithms data structures and systems

• E2E software development lifecycle experience including building and maintaining production grade software.

• Excellent verbal and writing communication skills with the English language.

• Operability experience (logging monitoring alerting debugging).

• Prefer - Experience with Cassandra or Spanner

• Prefer - Containerization knowledge (Kubernetes Docker) experience.

• Prefer - Experience with DevOps and infrastructure as code (terraform CI/CD build tools – maven/gradle).

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·       The anticipated starting pay range for Colorado is: $128300 - $188210.

·       The anticipated starting pay range for the states of Hawaii and New York (not including NYC) is: $136600 - $200310.

·       The anticipated starting pay range for California New York City and Washington is: $149500 - $219230.

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