Job Description

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Job Category

Products and Technology

Job Details

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with a performance focus to join our R&D, Tech & Products team. Our mission as the “customer company” is to ensure confidence with our customers, from Fortune 100 companies to start-ups and nonprofit organizations. Processing more than 5+ billion transactions per day and growing, performance remains a central focus for innovation.

Your impact:

Be a part of a first-rate engineering team that influences the future expansion of next-generation cloud solutions for speed, scale, and high availability. This position will be involved in engineering projects from design to ensuring production performs as expected. Develop tools and automation frameworks for continuous integration, performance measurement, and evaluation. You will have the opportunity to design performance experiments, collect, and evaluate data. Contribute to the design and velocity of our global products. Optimize our systems end-to-end by advising infrastructure design, server and application development/tuning, solving complex cluster architecture, and any data storage issues that impact features.

This candidate must have the technical prowess to write fast and efficient code in a microservices architecture, find inefficiencies, and influence others to make performance improvements. In addition, this engineer needs to measure and demonstrate performance gains in a scientific way by building/running workloads or simulations.

Required Skills:

• 5 - 8 years of software development experience
• Strong programming skills in either Java, Javascript, C++ or other object-oriented languages
• Clear understanding of modern cloud-native architectures and the open source community that influences it
• Experience in public cloud technologies
• Hands-on experience with performance measurement, evaluation, and optimization
• Ability to work cross-functionally to articulate, measure, and solve performance issues
• Passion for continuous improvement and learning new technologies
• Ability to communicate as an expert clearly and effectively that results in impact to other development teams.
• Flexibility to adjust to changing/multiple priorities and technologies
• Bachelor’s degree (or its foreign degree equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline or equivalent experience
  

Preferred Skills:

• Knowledge of database/datalake performance fundamentals: SQL, schema, internals
• JVM (Java Virtual Machine) and garbage collector tuning, heap dump experience
• Agile/ Scrum methodology experience
• Experience with big data technologies
• Experience working with Apache Spark and/or Presto (Trino)
• Understanding of back-end systems and API’s, developer tools and compilers
• Working knowledge of Linux operating system
• Experience evaluating and interpreting large volumes of production data using Splunk to evaluate throughput, latency, memory and CPU utilization
• Experience with service mesh, Kafka, and caching
• Knowledge of how a browser works (i.e. Chrome DevTools, UI automation tools)

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