Position Summary:

You thrive on the challenge of taming massive data and making it available and accessible. You want to work with bleeding edge technologies like Cassandra, Kafka, and CloudFormation. You want to work in an environment that encourages outside-the-box thinking and the ability to react on the fly. You are ready for your work to be seen by millions and hold yourself accountable for high quality work. You are a self-starter that constantly prioritizes tasks and sees projects through from concept to production.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test, and support end-to-end application capabilities and functionality
• Optimize existing code for performance, reusability, and readability
• Proactively identify competing priorities and work with teammates to resolve and/or escalate
• Document and communicate application design, maintenance processes, and troubleshooting procedures
• Attend daily meeting to communicate status and coordinate workloads
• Build and maintain cloud architecture via VMs, startup scripts, autoscaling, and formation templates

Requirements:

• Well-versed in Java, specifically web applications (Jetty preferred)
• Excellent understanding of HTTP and RESTful architecture
• Strong understanding of standard development tools such as version control systems, Linux/UNIX shells, IDEs, debuggers, etc.
• Strong understanding of distributed application concepts including load balancing, replication/redundancy, concurrency
• Familiarity with any of the following a plus: git, AngularJS, Backbone.js, RequireJS, Java, NoSQL, AWS, Node.js, iOS, Android, Adobe Creative Suite, Balsamiq, Grunt, PhantomJS, CasperJS, CDNs, SEO, Social APIs (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc), shell scripting, agile methodology, design patterns