Full-Time Senior Software Engineer (Scala)
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Job Description
- At the Senior Engineer level, individuals consistently assemble solutions to ambiguous problems and debug the most complex issues.
- They frequently operate at a level that maximizes the effectiveness of others around them.
- In addition to being self-sufficient in their engineering responsibilities, engineers at this level are sought after by peers to support a variety of different initiatives such as recruiting at hiring events, presenting in sales meetings, and navigating client complexities.
Skills & Requirements
What you’ll do:
- Build scalable back-end software where performance is critical.
- Implement new features, algorithms, data processing operations, benchmarks, and tests for a large Scala-based software framework.
- Engage in multidisciplinary work that applies an agile process (scrum board, daily stand-ups, and two-week iterations) to design, architecture, development, testing and deployment.
- Contribute to both a growing company and to the open-source communities that support our work.
- Lead technical decisions and execution in software services projects at Azavea.
- Lead technical requirements discovery during business development conversations with potential clients.
- Contribute to proposal writing processes at Azavea by scoping deliverables, providing accurate task estimation, and execution timeline.
- Contribute to direction and features of open source projects maintained by Azavea like GeoTrellis, RasterVision, Franklin, etc.
- Support the development of an open-source community around Azavea projects.
- Collaborate with engineers across teams to advance or refine the use of new technologies beneficial to development work.
- Provide high-quality code reviews that help colleagues learn and improve.
- Provide sound technical advice and weigh in on decisions that impact other teams or at the company level.
- Research new technologies, make thoughtful recommendations, and clearly communicate trade-offs of adoption.
- Identify and proactively tackle technical debt in appropriate areas of your projects.
- Proactively look for opportunities to share knowledge across the company and externally.
You should:
- Demonstrate fluency with Scala and Python.
- Have experience with Amazon Web Services, Azure, or another cloud-based architecture.
- Have a firm understanding of services-based architecture and distributed systems.
- Demonstrate the ability to define engineering features and tasks accurately.
- Have a solid track record of executing high-quality code on time into software that works as expected. Desire to continually improve your engineering skills.
- Demonstrate solid communication skills and the ability to work within a team environment.
- Be able to adapt and learn in order to keep innovating on a cutting-edge open-source project.
Additional experience we find valuable (but not required):
- Experience with Spark or other Scala-based distributed processing frameworks.
- Prior work with distributed data processing frameworks, like Hadoop, Storm, Flink, etc.
- Demonstration of open source or other community service contributions.
- Strong background in algorithm development where performance is critical.
- Experience working with medical imagery.
Office and Benefits
- Fully subsidized health care, dental, prescription plan, including for spouse/partner and children
- Fully subsidized life and long term disability insurance, plus voluntary short term disability insurance
- Medical reimbursement plan to cover what the health insurance does not
- Retirement plan with matching percentage
- Almost 4 weeks paid vacation plus sick/personal time off
- Family and medical leave
- Flexible work schedule
- Paid maternity and paternity leave
- Child care subsidy
- Paid time off for voting and volunteering
- Education assistance plan
- Student loan assistance
- Public transit and biking reimbursement plans
- Monthly lunches on the house
- 10% time for Research or Training Projects
- Profit-sharing bonus plan
- Financial transparency through an open book policy
- Kind, capable, and thoughtful colleagues
How to Apply
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