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
Numbers & Facts
Location
Lexington, Massachusetts
Skills
Agile Programming Methodologiesunmatched
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)unmatched
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)unmatched
Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
Apacheunmatched
Apache Cassandraunmatched
Apache HBaseunmatched
Apache Kafkaunmatched
Apache Luceneunmatched
Apache Mahoutunmatched
Apache Sparkunmatched
Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
Communication Skillsunmatched
Computer Scienceunmatched
Computer Serversunmatched
Data Analysisunmatched
Data Processingunmatched
Distributed Computingunmatched
Djangounmatched
High Availabilityunmatched
Information Technology & Information Systemsunmatched
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)unmatched
Input/Outputunmatched
Javaunmatched
Leading Edge Technologyunmatched
Medicineunmatched
MySQLunmatched
NoSQLunmatched
Oracleunmatched
Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
Redisunmatched
Scala Programming Languageunmatched
Scalable System Developmentunmatched
Server Clustersunmatched
Software Developmentunmatched
Software Engineeringunmatched
Software as a Service (SaaS)unmatched
Systems Administration/Managementunmatched
Unix Operating Systemsunmatched
Web Servicesunmatched
nginx Web Serverunmatched
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