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We are looking for a Senior Engineer to join Digital Technology team. Ideal candidate would be someone with a passion for Clean Code, Scalable architectures, Test Driven Development and DevOps. Someone who loves getting hands dirty with code and learns everyday.
Responsibilities
- Hands on developer to design, code, and test iteratively on technical solutions that meet business and technical requirements
- Implement automation in the areas of Cloud resource provisioning (IaC), unit testing, code coverage, static code analysis and vulnerability scanning with CI/CD process.
- Create appropriate documentation (process flows, technical specs, class diagrams, unit test cases).
- Assist in platform support and troubleshooting production issues.
- Promote a culture of best practices with peer code reviews and extreme ownership for continuous incremental delivery.
- Research and implement new technology solutions where applicable.
Requirements
- Extensive programming experience and desire to write and review code 70% of time.
- 5-6 years of experience working with Java with appreciation for Object Oriented and functional programming paradigms. Familiarity with Python is a plus.
- Hands on experience with Spark, Spark SQL, M/R Framework and Big Data Technology Stack.
- Experience developing cloud-hosted (AWS), containerized applications (K8s) and services.
- AWS Components: EMR, EC2, S3 storage, Lambda, Relational Database Service, Simple Notification Service (SNS), Elasticache, etc.
- Familiarity with relational and big data such as Postgres, Hadoop and columnar Storage formats Parquet
- Experience with source code control tools.
- Gitlab experience is a plus.
- Demonstrates knowledge of CI/CD processes, testing frameworks, practices and tools (Jenkins, jUnit, Terraform, JFrog, Jacoco, SonarQube, etc.)
- Familiarity of Linux platforms with knowledge of shell scripting.
- Knowledge of networking and protocols: HTTP/HTTPS, TLS/SSL/certificates, TCP/IP
