Sr Software Engineer (Back End)

Summary

The job is for a Senior Software Engineer at Nexla, focusing on backend software development. The role involves architecting, developing, and delivering solutions for customers, with a focus on large-scale data handling. The candidate should have experience in Java, Kubernetes, Kafka, Caches (Redis, Memcache), Databases, communication protocols (gRPC, REST), and various data formats (JSON, Parquet, Avro).

Requirements

• Enthusiasm and curiosity to learn new technologies and software architectures
• Min. 7+ years of platform and backend software development in mid size or large scale engineering organizations
• Excellent communication skills - being able to connect the dots in the feature requirements to enable software development of those features
• Deep understanding and recent hands on experience of high throughput and low latency systems written in JVM based languages (Java or similar backend languages)
• Experience and understanding of working on backend infrastructure: Kubernetes, Kafka, Caches (Redis, Memcache), Databases and communication protocols (gRPC, REST)
• Experience in working with various data formats (JSON, Parquet, Avro etc.)
• Ability to write code in the programming languages (like Java, Python etc.), deep understanding on how APIs work, ability to write and optimize SQL
• Ability to connect a customer’s specific business problems and Nexla’s solutions
• Ability to work in a team environment with other engineers in the platform team and mentor other engineers on backend infrastructure and system architecture design patterns

Responsibilities

• Design and develop solutions for backend software using Java
• Work on large scale problems of Data Engineering and design software to handle huge amounts of data (both transient and persistent)
• Be part of the on-call rotation for your team to provide support on software
• Bring knowledge of new technologies into the team, that will make Nexla’s platform more efficient and robust for the product
• Collaborate with additional Nexla technical resources in Product, engineering, CSM, support etc. to solve customer issues
• Collaborate with other engineering teams (Backend, API, UI etc.) to work on projects together
• Build and design tools to monitor our systems better