Software Development Engineer - Workload Management

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About the Team

This is for the Zeus team, who are distributed across the United States and Ireland

About the Role

You will be responsible for designing and developing scalable components, microservices and libraries using our technology stack in a highly distributed environment.  Among other technologies, we frequently use Scala, Akka, Gradle, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Kafka, ZooKeeper and Linux.

The role will involve designing, developing and deploying a critical production service, including working on highly concurrent transaction processing, distributed memory management, communication protocols, and algorithms for distributed processing.

About You

Required Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience with Scala, or advanced Java/functional programming.

• 1+ years of experience in one or more of the following technologies. Akka, Kafka or Zookeeper.

• 2+ years of experience working with automated or web testing software and CI/CD tools (e.g. Jenkins, Gradle, etc)

Other Qualifications:

• BS or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related fields.

• Test focused with good TDD / Unit & System Testing, debugging and profiling skills

• Experienced with common IDE & build tools (e.g. IntelliJ, Git, Gradle, maven, TeamCity, Artifactory)

• Strong collaboration, communication and leadership skills

• Have a passion for developing software systems and delivering them at scale.

Our Approach to Flexible Work
 

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