Software Engineer

Company: Horizontal Talent
Location: Basking Ridge
Posted on: May 15, 2022

Job Description:

Projects the candidate will be working on:

Candidate will be part of data reporting product space, working on oncall/production support, application resiliency requirements and creating self-service reporting capabilities/extracts based on business requirements, perform PoCs to validate design patterns and technology fitment etc

Ideal Background:

production support experience supporting applications processing large volumes of data

building monitoring/observability solutions

proactive and accountable in meeting commitments

broad tech skills in data engineering space - spark, scala, kafka, dev/ops etc

Experience:

Software engineering maturity, combination of development and production support experience

Top Requirements:

Data Engineering - Spark, Scala, Hadoop, PostGreSQL

Dev/ops

Experience in Kubernetes or similar container platform

Team and Team size:

Candidates will be part of scrum team, consisting of 4-7 developers

Top Responsibilities:

We are looking for a strong developer with experience working in data engineering area, Ideal candidate will be a self starter with enthusiasm to probe and willing to learn quickly.

Primary Responsibilities:

Code and test for data engineering team

Work closely with rest of scrum team in meeting sprint commitments

Provide oncall production support (incl weekends) on rotation basis

Collaborate with business users in understanding the problem statement, triage/debug to uncover the root cause, potential code fixes

Follow defined processes/procedures git commits, code merge, deployment planning activities, code reviews, etc.

Proactive and Accountable in seeking clarity and meeting commitments by working with rest of the team members, product owner, leads to understand the user stories.

Qualifications

Experience in production support for business critical applications

2+ yrs experience in dev/ops

2+ yrs experience as a developer

1+ yrs experience in Agile

2+ yrs experience with data engineering space (spark, scala, kakfa, Hadoop, PostGreSQL etc), Java programming is a plus.

1+ yrs experience with leveraging application monitoring tools for varied technology platforms

1+ yrs experience with implementing Kafka or similar streaming technologies

Exposure to CI/CD tooling, supporting cloud-based applications, Kubernetes/Docker containers

Keywords: Horizontal Talent, Newark , Software Engineer, IT / Software / Systems , Basking Ridge, New Jersey