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At Geofeedia, we have big ideas. The technology team brings those ideas to life. We take risks with cutting edge technologies, encouraging a “fail-fast” approach that helps us iterate towards world-class solutions. We help each other solve problems and take pride in our work. We have fun as a team and celebrate the benefit that we deliver to our growing customer community
Geofeedia has a unique opening for a Java Team Lead who will work with the most active and high-profile data sets in the world today, such as the Twitter firehose, Instagram, YouTube, and other popular social media networks.
The Java Team Lead will be a member of the team assigned to design and implement microservices and Big Data processing modules, within a system that manages many hundreds of billions of records. The system is capable of writing 1+ billion data points per day, making them available in near real-time to front-end customer applications and analytics.
Responsibilities
- Collaboratively develop and contribute to the strategies used to build Geofeedia’s Big Data solutions
- Hands-on implementation of java code, fully cloud oriented services
- Collaborate with peers to establish development goals for super low latency service strategies, Big Data solutions and other initiatives
- Share and learn patterns & best practices in all areas of software design and maintenance
- As a member of the team, integrate the Big Data systems and low latency services with dependent applications, such as Geofeedia’s API and the customer facing front-end applications
Ideal Candidates
- Development experience with the Java programming language
- Experience creating and consuming REST APIs
- Demonstrated ability to write unit tests
- Understanding of a dependency injection model such as Spring or Guice
- Ability to design and use data structures stored in relational databases
- A basic understanding of functional programming models, such as Scala
- Able to understand code in open source java projects with large code bases
- Experience working with Javascript and HTML
- Use of Maven, and direct xml configuration of the pom.xml file
Preferred Experience
- Experience working with the Jackson JSON parser
- Experience working with large scale systems that implement a Service Oriented Architecture
- Experience managing local docker instances, and using Jenkins or another CI tool
- Experience optimizing services to achieve 100% uptime and very low latency responses
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