Java Backend Engineer

• Work in the Small Business Group (SBG) Data Engineering team. The team has twenty-seven engineers working on Data Warehousing, Personalization, Risk, Fraud, Graph Database Solutions, Business Intelligence and more.
• Design and develop big data solutions using industry standard technologies.
• Develop web services that make big data available in real-time for in-product applications.
• Work with data architects to ensure that Big Data solutions are aligned with company-wide technology directions.
• Lead fast moving development teams using agile methodologies.
• Lead by example, demonstrating best practices for unit testing, CI/CD, performance testing, capacity planning, documentation, monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
• Communicate progress across organizations and levels from individual contributor to senior executive. Identify and clarify the critical few issues that need action and drive appropriate decisions and actions. Communicate results clearly and in actionable form.
• Serve as technical "go to” person for our core technologies – Hadoop, Vertica, Tableau, Cassandra, Graph Databases and others.
• Demonstrate strong implementation aptitude to translate objectives into a scalable solution to meet the needs of the end customer while meeting deadlines.
• Demonstrate commitment to your professional development by attending conferences, taking classes, giving technical presentations, and participating in developer communities inside and outside of the organization.
Required Skills:
• BS in Computer Science. MS Preferred.
• Strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms and distributed systems.
• Strong database fundamentals including SQL, performance and schema design.
• Strong programming skills in Java, C++, Python, Ruby or similar.
• 6+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
• 6+ years of experience integrating technical processes and business outcomes – specifically: data and process analysis, data quality metrics/monitoring, data architecture, developing policies/standards & supporting processes.
• Strong project leadership experience, including 5 or more years leading multiple complex software development projects using agile methodologies.
• Experience in people management or interest in people management is a plus.
• Experience using big data technologies and their applications (HDFS, Kafka, Cassandra, Columnar Databases, Graph Databases, etc).
• History of contributing to open source projects is a plus.
• 3+ years DevOps experience including configuration, optimization, backup, high reliability, monitoring and systems version control. AWS experience is a plus.

Java, C++, Python, Ruby or similar.

Only GC/Citizen/OPT