Software Development RoleOur smart sensors produce huge amounts of data that needs to be tracked, stored and processed in both real time and batch. The goal: help our users with helpful and meaningful feedback as well as medicine and science through aggregate knowledge/patterns extraction. In order to make this possible, a scalable, highly available backend and API are required.
We need a team of passionate "A-team" engineers to help us build and nurture them as they grow. If you blend deep technical knowledge with enthusiasm about state-of-the-art technology and you have experience building scalable, high-volume web services and/or data analytics solutions in a fast growing environment, we would very much like to speak with you about a Software Development role here!Role and ResponsibilitiesArchitect and develop data processing application layer for scalable SaaS platformResponsible for I/O of biometric, lifestyle data and transactional data.Specify and implement APIs and other I/O interfaces for data queuing, NoSQL storage, and application-to-application data exchange.Communicate and work closely with management to schedule and drive delivery of feature sets, estimate task timeframes, and follow agile iteration processes.Research and evaluate new technologies to be used as enhancements or upgrades to existing server clusters, computing applications and other IT infrastructure components.Document code and maintain applications as new functionality is developed and new deployments and revisions rolled out.Qualifications / RequirementsBS or MS Degree in Computer Science5+ years building scalable web applications / web services.Ability to effectively and independently own areas of development and contribute to development deliverables as part of a team.Strong communication / internal service skillsTechnicalOS / STACK: Experience and familiarity using UNIX based systemsExperience on services running behind Apache or Nginx proxiesBACK END PROGRAMMING: Java experience is a mustScala experience is a big plusPython experience would be desirableDESIRABLE FRAMEWORKS: Play Framework for Java/ScalaDjango for PythonSTORAGE: Experience with NoSQL tools is required (Cassandra, Hbase, Redis or similar)Experience working with relational databases is required (MySQL, Oracle or similar)COMPUTING: Experience with clustering / distributed systems (Spark, Mahout, Lucene, Kafka, Storm or similar)PLATFORM: Familiarity with IaaS and platform vendorsAWS stack – including EC2 and S3Heroku, other