Responsible for building outstanding software solutions to support our real time data platform
Maintain Ajua’s platform uptime, performance, stability and scalability
Design, guide, mentor and challenge system architecture and design with others
Develop, maintain, and scale a world class public API
Develop best possible, most robust, and extensible solutions from feature requests
Experience working with data processing technology (Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, etc)
Experience working with Data Scientists to develop rich value added features
Experience working with DBA to create ETL and Data Warehouse system
Experience working with Operations to automate solutions and increase service reliability
Experience working with Machine Learning and using large-scale data repository for business intelligence; App development a plus
Closely monitor all platform related production systems
Periodically perform On-Call duty
Analyze requirements thoroughly; Advise and develop solutions that solves the true customers' pain
Perform testing and unit testing for delivering quality work
Acquire technical skills and knowledge continuously and aggressively, and help team to develop the same
Properly document development work completed
Providing strategic guidance and advice in a true partnership with executive leadership

Bachelors of Science in Computer Science or related engineering discipline
8+ years of relevant, broad engineering experience
Solid data structures and algorithms foundation
Expert-level understanding of at least one JVM language preferably Java
Advanced understanding of the JVM internals, JVM Runtime, JVM GC, and JVM performance tuning
Advanced understanding of Spring Framework, Spring Boot and Spring Cloud
Deep understanding of applicable unit and integration testing, and testing frameworks
Deep understanding of Relational and Non-relational databases
Strong understanding of big data stack, e.g. Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, etc
Excellent knowledge of Linux and networking
Working knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies preferably Docker and Kubernetes
Strong working knowledge of AWS Cloud computing platform
Open Source project contributions are a plus

Senior Platform Engineer

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