As a Senior Software Engineer at Uptake you’ll help build and expand a complex analytics platform that is already changing the way large industrial companies manage their assets. Senior Software Engineers are encouraged to work with, and experiment with, cutting-edge technologies in the fields of distributed systems, data ingestion and mapping, and machine learning, to name a few. We strongly promote innovation and collaboration throughout our engineering team, and are committed to helping Senior Software Engineers find the perfect balance of productivity and personal growth.

Responsibilities:

As a Senior Software Engineer, your responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Create interactive visualization tools and dashboards

• Build a highly scalable framework for ingesting, transforming and enhancing data at web scale

• Develop a web services based platform that can grow with the business

• Establish automated build and deployment pipelines

• Implement machine learning models that enable customers to glean hidden insights about their data

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

• 6+ years experience programming in a modern object oriented programming language

• A passion for DevOps and an appreciation for Continuous Integration/Deployment

• A passion for QA and an understanding that testing is not someone else’s responsibility

• Solid object-oriented programming and design skills

• Outstanding programming and problem solving skills

• Strong passion for technology and building great systems

• Excellent communication skills and ability to work using Agile methodologies

• Ability to work quickly and collaboratively in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment

• Understanding of SQL and noSQL database technologies

• Understanding of structure and usage of RESTful web services

• Experience with service-oriented (SOA) and event-driven (EDA) architectures

• Experience using the full Spring Catalog

Preferred skills:

We value these qualities, but they’re not required for this role:

• Masters or Ph.D. in related field

• Experience as an open source contributor

• Experience with Akka, stream processing technologies and concurrency frameworks

• Experience with noSQL solutions: Cassandra, HDFS and/or Elasticsearch

• Experience with Data modeling

• Experience with Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt or equivalent

• Experience with Docker, Mesos and Marathon

• Experience with distributed messaging services, preferably Kafka

• Experience with distributed data processors, preferably Spark

• Experience with Angular, React, Redux, Immutable.js, Rx.js, Node.js or equivalent

• Experience with Reactive and/or Functional programming

• Understanding of Thrift, Avro or protocol buffers

If you think you would be a good fit for this role, and are interested in joining the best engineering team in Chicago, please provide your resume and a cover letter.