Remote Senior Java Engineer

Summary

Join Brandwatch, a Cision product, as a Senior Software Engineer to build and maintain high-volume data processing and storage platform.

Requirements

• Extensive professional experience with Java
• Hands-on experience with SQL database design and implementation
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and build automation systems (e.g. GitHub Actions, Jenkins CI)
• Experience working in horizontally scaled, data-intensive environments
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Great numerical and analytical skills
• Knowledge of service-oriented architecture, big data systems, and distributed computing
• Comfortable with Unix/Linux operating systems and command line environments

Responsibilities

• Work with our infrastructure and application teams to grow and evolve the core data processing and storage systems of our platform
• Work with the product manager and engineering lead in an agile team, translating requirements into technical solutions
• Build RESTful APIs in Java with Spring Framework and PostgreSQL to support the business logic of our applications
• Build high-volume data processing pipelines, full-text search and analytics APIs using Kafka, Lucene and Solr to support our core product functionality
• Monitor performance of our systems, propose and implement optimisations
• Help with hiring, training, onboarding and mentoring of team members

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional experience with high-throughput data ingestion queuing/streaming (Kafka, RabbitMQ etc.)
• Experience working with PostgreSQL in performance-sensitive deployments
• Knowledge of Lucene, Elasticsearch/Solr, NoSQL databases
• Cloud infrastructure experience with AWS, GCP etc

Benefits

• Holiday - 25 days holiday and 4 Wellness days per year to encourage a healthy work-life balance!
• Possibility to work fully remote
• Health cash plan employer paid at level 3. (Option to upgrade plan to level 4,5 or 6 + add family members at employee’s expense)
• Group life assurance - employer paid
• Sports benefit - gym/sport membership contribution - 50% or up to 25 GBP per month employer contribution
• Cycle to work; Employee discounts platform - through Reward Gateway
• Dental insurance - preference premiums at employee’s cost + option to add family members
• Employee assistance plan (EAP) & Full Calm subscription
• Maternity/parental leave policy & Sabbatical leave policy