Software Engineer II – TREX

What you’ll do:

• Take on projects with independence and a mandate to leave things better than you found them.
• Participate in the planning and initial steps for key changes on the site.
• Be pragmatic when solving problems with a deep understanding of the purpose and goal of your work.
• Touch code at all levels, from client ingestion to data storage, data analysis whatever is required to complete your project. Take responsibility for all aspects of software engineering, from design to implementation, QA, and maintenance.
• Have a CI/CD mindset. Most of our engineers release code to production every few days and we have a daily release cycle.
• Be integral for the code quality on your team through leadership in design and code review. Take responsibility for the quality of the code produced by you and the team
• Operate across our evolving technology stack - we’re developing in Java, React, SQL, and more.
• Collaborate closely with Product and design teams to define feature specifications and develop high quality deliverables for our stakeholders.
• Work alongside other engineering groups located around the world.

On-Call Expectations:

• Each team member is expected to participate in our mandatory on-call program.
• Each on-call shift is scheduled for 1 week at a time
• Shifts rotate every 4 - 5 weeks and will occur less frequently as more engineers are hired and onboarded to the program
• Full shifts or partial days within a shift are swappable with advance notice. Shift swapping is to be coordinated amongst the impacted team members.
• While on-call, a team member may be paged at any point 24x7. This includes, but isn’t limited to, sleeping hours, weekday nights, holidays, etc. Team members are expected to respond to the page and take the necessary action as our official policies describe.

What we are looking for:

• 5+ years of experience in commercial software development
• A strong history of development with Java
• Some exposure to the following technologies a plus: HTML5, JavaScript, React, GraphQL, CSS, SQL, Postgres, Linux, Python, Gradle, Apache Tomcat, BERT, Hive, Spark
• Familiarity with Linux
• Familiarity with designing infrastructure on AWS or other cloud providers
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent
• Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, and OO design
• Willingness and ability to take on new technologies
• Ability to break down complex problems into simple solutions
• Strong analytical skills and desire to write clean, correct, and efficient code
• Sense of ownership, urgency, and pride in your work
• Exposure to developing scalable code for high-volume systems is a plus

Nice to haves:

• Having a data mindset along with Software Engineering expertise. Also, have worked on designing infrastructures that deal with the processing of large data sets.
• Experience working with and processing large quantities of data - Hive, Snowflake, NoSQL databases.

Why join us:

• Ability to work remotely from anywhere in the world
• Close cooperation with the development team and client
• Opportunity to influence product development
• Professional growth: the certification preparation course is free for our specialists. The company pays for two attempts to pass the exam, regardless of the exam result
• We cover English classes (with a native speaker)
• Boost professional brand: you can participate in local conferences as a listener or as a speaker
• Regular team buildings: have fun with teammates
• Gifts for significant life events (marriage, childbirth)
• Tech and non-tech Zazmic Communities: support and share experience with each other