Software Engineer(Java & Python)

Job Title: Software Engineer(Java & Python)

Location: Canada (Remote)

Employment Type: Contract Opportunity

Job Description

As Software Engineer, you will work on one of the world's largest social media platform which deals with a few petabytes of data coming to the system daily. You will contribute as part of R&D self-organized team working in a challenging, innovative environment for our client.

Investigate, create, and implement the solutions for many technical challenges using cutting edge technologies, including building/enhancing BigData processing platform enabling work of software used by hundreds of millions of users.

Responsibilities

• Obtains tasks from the project lead or Team Lead (TL), prepares functional and design specifications, approves them with all stakeholders.
• Ensures that assigned area/areas are delivered within set deadlines and required quality objectives.
• Provides estimations, agrees task duration with the manager and contributes to project plan of assigned area.
• Evaluating existing data systems.
• Developing best practices for data coding to ensure consistency within the system.
• Updating and optimizing local and metadata models.
• Evaluating implemented data systems for variances, discrepancies, and efficiency.
• Troubleshooting and optimizing data systems.
• Understand the business drivers and analytical use-cases and translate these to data products
• Design, implement and maintain pipelines that produce business critical data reliably and efficiently using cloud technology
• Addresses area-level risks, provides and implements mitigation plan.
• Reports about area readiness/quality, and raise red flags in crisis situations which are beyond his/her AOR.
• Responsible for resolving crisis situations within his/her AOR.
• Initiates and conducts code reviews, creates code standards, conventions, and guidelines.
• Suggests technical and functional improvements to add value to the product.
• Constantly improves his/her professional level.
• Collaborates with other teams.
  
  

Must Have

• University degree in Computer Related Sciences or similar
• 5+ year’s of experience as backend engineer.
• Solid Python and Java coding skill with 5+Years of experience.
• Experience in executing big-data query.
• Ability to organize and document solutions.
• A passion for streamlining systems and processes to make the difficult trivial.
• Strong OOP skills.
• Effective communication (oral & written), collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
• Result oriented approach.
  
  

Would Be a Plus

• Experience with AWS (S3).
• Experience with JS & HTML.
• Experience with Kafka.