Senior or Principal Software Development Engineer

We are looking for an experienced software engineer to join a team where your work will be front and center to thousands of customers.

You will join an elite team who is innovative and flexible; with a weekly, agile release cycle and individual ownership. We expect great things from our engineers and reward them with stimulating new projects, emerging technologies and the chance to be part of a company that is about to change the cloud computing landscape forever.

You will:
Implement code written structured for metrics monitoring and logging, perform peer reviews
Deliver detailed designs for projects, and subsequently drive them to completion
Work with engineering management to scope and plan engineering efforts and dependencies
Interface with QA, Product Management, Technical Support, Documentation and UX
You have :

• 4+ years of software development experience building highly-reliable, mission-critical software
• Experience working with a system of scale
• Excellent grasp of software engineering principles
• Strong understanding of server side technologies: caching, process and asynchronous processing
• Prior experience working on UI technologies (e.g. Backbone) highly desirable
• Prior experience with or understanding of REST (or designing APIs) highly desirable

The Stack
Our primary programming languages are Java and JavaScript
We use open source frameworks such as Hibernate, Spring and Backbone.js
We run on best of breed infrastructure including MySQL, GitHub, Memcached, Redis, Kinesis and Elasticsearch
We make extensive use of virtualization and containers: AWS, Vagrant, Docker
Our weekly production releases are made possible by Continuous Integration and sophisticated build, test and release automation leveraging Maven, npm, Artifactory, Chef, Ansible and the like
We participate in the OpenSource community