Zyte is hiring a
Senior Java Engineer

Summary

The job is for a software developer role at Zyte, working on their SaaS offering - Zyte API. The candidate should have experience with Java, algorithms, data structures, networking protocols, event-driven frameworks, RDBMS, Linux, Docker, and good communication skills in English.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building large scale data processing systems or high load services
• Strong background in algorithms and data structures
• Strong track record in Java with 3+ years of experience
• Knowledge of networking protocols and network programming
• Strong knowledge of any event-driven (Event loop, future and reactor patterns) framework
• Strong knowledge of at least one RDBMS
• Experience working with Linux and Docker
• Good communication skills in English
• Experience of collaboration in a remote-first team
• Computer Science, other engineering degree or equivalent working experience

Responsibilities

• Work on the core platform that will improve and scale the platform to achieve 100k QPS and beyond
• Develop and troubleshoot distributed applications, write and change components implemented in Java, Scala and Nodejs and manage concerns such as scalability, transparency, failure handling, security and multi-tenancy
• Work on new features, including requirements gathering, design and implementation. You should be able to own and be responsible for the complete lifecycle of your features and code

Preferred Qualifications

• Kubernetes experience
• Experience in Netty and/or Vert.x
• Knowledge of JNI
• Strong foundational understanding of functional programming paradigm and 2+ years of experience working in Erlang, Scala or Haskell
• Apache Kafka experience
• Understanding of web browser internals
• Knowledge of today's cloud provider offerings: GCP, AWS, OCI etc
• Web data extraction experience: web crawling, web scraping
• History of open source contributions

Benefits

• Become part of a self-motivated, progressive, multicultural team
• Have the freedom and flexibility to work from where you do your best work
• Attend conferences and meet with team members from across the globe
• Work with cutting-edge open-source technologies and tools