Java 8 Backend Developer

Must Have: Java 8, Springboot
Nice To Have: AWS, Kafka, Python

Job Summary:
Responsible for building outstanding software solutions to drive the success of a business. Build various aspects of the company's infrastructure to power innumerable conversations at scale.

Primary Responsibilities:
Maintain the company platform uptime, performance, stability, and scalability
Design, guide, mentor and challenge system architecture and design with others
Develop and maintain a public API
Develop best possible, most robust, and extensible solutions from feature requests

Define and implement various strategies covering everything from subnets to backups to fog networking/computing configuration and deployments.
Provision, configure, maintain, backup, and monitor onsite and cloud based server resources.
Define and implement deployment strategies for client-facing and internal tool systems.
Continual improvement and fine-tuning of various alerting and monitoring systems.

Qualifications:
Experience in software/systems development.
Strong software development background, experience building software systems.
Working knowledge of at least one of the following languages: PHP, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Elixir, Go or comparable.
Strong background in Linux administration.
Strong experience with cloud providers such as AWS, Digital Ocean, Google Cloud, etc.
Strong understanding of IT security best practices.
Experience with automation/configuration software (puppet, ansible), and/or orchestration software (docker swarm, kubernetes, etc).
Understanding of computer networks.
Experience with administration of at production scale.