Senior Software Engineer

The Role:

Our Core Platform team is looking for a technologist who will partner with founding members and take lead on new enhancements, major upgrades and performance problems to our core platform. As a platform developer, you may also be involved in modularizing the existing infrastructure, so it is more suitable for API development etc. Other examples may include new persistence mechanisms, horizontal scaling, and higher availability engineering for certain parts of the application. 

What You’ll Do:

• To be successful, you will need to develop an excellent understanding of existing code architecture and be able to expand on it. You will use skills like concurrent programming, various types of caching, reactive programming, classic OOP concepts, message driven asynchronous programming to name a few.
• Frameworks and libraries you will interact with are Java, Hibernate, Spring, ActiveMQ Artemis, and in some instances Swing.
• It is imperative that you take responsibility not just building POC’s but meaningfully taking ideas to production along with maintaining/providing support frameworks for these as well.

What You’ll Need:

• A degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience working in a Java environment
• Knowledge of OOP, Design Patterns, Data Structures, Algorithms and best practices.
• Experience with any of the following:

• Java
• Spring/Spring Boot/Hibernate
• Apache Ignite
• ActiveMQ/Artemis/JMS
• MySQL
• Experience with any of the following would be a plus:
• Single Sign On frameworks
• Advanced Database techniques
• JMS clustering
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills. 
• Self-starter comfortable in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong knowledge of Linux, DevOps, and relational databases.
• In depth understanding of concurrent programming and design.  
• Produce secure and clean code that is stable, operational, consistent, and well-performing.
• Design, plan and deliver solutions in a large-scale enterprise environment. Author architecture documents.
• Ability to take ideas to POC stage and then shepherd them into production with a solid plan
• Ability and willingness to jump into production issues with very little ground information and navigate your way around it
• Openness to fostering talent and disseminating knowledge. 

The salary range for this position is between $160,000 - $200,000 + bonus + benefits.

*Note: This good faith pay range is provided in compliance with NYC law and the laws of other jurisdictions that may require a salary range in job postings.