Job Description

Our smart sensors produce huge amounts of data that needs to be tracked, stored and processed in both real time and batch. The goal: help our users with helpful and meaningful feedback as well as medicine and science through aggregate knowledge/patterns extraction.
In order to make this possible, a scalable, highly available backend and API are required. We need a team of passionate “A-team” engineers to help us build and nurture them as they grow.
If you blend deep technical knowledge with enthusiasm about state-of-the-art technology and you have experience building scalable, high-volume web services and/or data analytics solutions in a fast growing environment, we would very much like to speak with you about a Software Development role here! Role and Responsibilities

• Architect and develop data processing application layer for scalable SaaS platform
• responsible for I/O of biometric, lifestyle data and transactional data.
• Specify and implement APIs and other I/O interfaces for data queuing, NoSQL storage, and application-to-application data exchange.
• Communicate and work closely with management to schedule and drive delivery of feature sets, estimate task timeframes, and follow agile iteration processes.
• Research and evaluate new technologies to be used as enhancements or upgrades to existing server clusters, computing applications and other IT infrastructure components.
• Document code and maintain applications as new functionality is developed and new deployments and revisions rolled out.

Qualifications / Requirements

• BS or MS Degree in Computer Science
• 5+ years building scalable web applications / web services.
• Ability to effectively and independently own areas of development and contribute to
• development deliverables as part of a team.
• Strong communication / internal service skills

Technical

• OS / STACK:
  • Experience and familiarity using UNIX based systems
  • Experience on services running behind Apache or Nginx proxies
• BACK END PROGRAMMING:
  • Java experience is a must
  • Scala experience is a big plus
  • Python experience would be desirable
• DESIRABLE FRAMEWORKS:
  • Play Framework for Java/Scala
  • Django for Python
• STORAGE:
  • Experience with NoSQL tools is required (Cassandra, Hbase, Redis or similar)
  • Experience working with relational databased is required (MySQL, Oracle or similar)
• COMPUTING:
  • Experience with clustering / distributed systems (Spark, Mahout, Lucene, Kafka, Storm or similar)
• PLATFORM:
  • Familiarity with IaaS and platform vendors
  • AWS stack – including EC2 and S3
  • Heroku, othe