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Big Data • Cloud • Digital Media • Machine Learning • Mobile • Software • Industrial
The Principal Software Developer will architect and evolve backend systems using Node.js and Python, design RESTful APIs, lead teams, and maintain high reliability and performance in a scalable environment.
Top Skills:
Aws SnsAws SqsBlackDockerGitJenkinsKubernetesMypyNode.jsOpentelemetryPoetryPostgresPytestPythonRabbitMQRedisRuffSpinnakerTypescript
Big Data • Fitness • Healthtech • Information Technology • Software • Analytics
Lead the rearchitecture and implementation of Arcadia's User Management system, focusing on authentication and authorization frameworks. Drive new systems and mentor engineers to ensure secure data access and operational excellence.
Top Skills:
AngularAuth0AWSJwtNestjsNode.jsOauth2PostgresReactSaml 2.0TerraformTypescript
Information Technology • Security • Cybersecurity
Lead and develop integrations for IAM platform, collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive scalable solutions and mentor backend engineers.
Top Skills:
AWSAzureDockerGCPGoJavaKubernetesMicroservicesNoSQLRestful ApisSQL
We are seeking a highly skilled and passionate expert backend developer to join our growing team and take ownership of key aspects of our cutting-edge projects. You will have major impact in shaping the development of high-performance scalable applications, through hands-on work and technical leadership.
Requirements
- Extensive experience in designing, building, and deploying highly scalable and performant distributed systems in a production environment.
- Demonstrated ability to design and build such backend distributed applications from scratch, considering many aspects of application design and implementation including performance, security, maintainability, resiliency, user experience, and more.
- Demonstrated ability to balance and engineer trade-offs between implementation time required and sophistication of the solution.
- Experience with requirement analysis (working with Product to define the scope of solutions)
- Proficiency with cloud computing platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure - Load balancing, API gateways, User management, Object stores, Security, Databases, etc.
- Deep proficiency with one of these programming languages: C#, RUST, Java, C++, GO, Scala, Python
- Proficiency designing and implementing API’s: GraphQL, REST, gRPC, etc.
- Proficiency working with large data sets in a variety of databases technologies, such as: Postgres, CockroachDB, Vitess, Bigtable, Cassandra, Dynamo, Kafka, RabbitMQ.
- Proficiency in applying caching solutions to address performance and scalability needs.
- Experience working with dynamic (not-fixed) schemas, and schemas defined by 3rd party developers.
- Proficiency with Microservices Architecture and tools: Kubernetes, Docker, serverless, etc.
- Proficiency with Application Resiliency and DevOps: security, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, monitoring, logging, and operation at scale
- Experience with Agile development
- Experience with CI/CD methodologies and automation tools such as Terraform
- Experience leading projects / initiatives
Bonus qualifications (prioritized)
- Experience working with large data sets in browser-based real-time collaborative multi-user applications. This could be experience with web apps manipulating large quantities of text, charts, 2D, or 3D graphics, etc.
- Experience with data manipulation in collaborative web applications. For example, handling “eventual consistency” of data in “multi-Player” collaboration technologies (such as with “Google Docs”). Technologies such as SignalIR, Y.js, etc.
- Nice-to-have: industry experience: CAD, ML, Simulation, Data compression, Reprographics, Solid modelling, Reality Capture/3D-scanning, and other technologies found in the building architecture and construction industries.
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