Software Engineer — Real-Time Microservices & Data Systems

United States Digital Space LLC

City of Edinburgh

On-site

GBP 50,000 - 90,000

Full time

11 days ago

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Job summary

the company Group, a premier mobile gaming company, seeks a Software Engineer to work within the Acquisitions team on micro-services handling real-time data for marketing partners. You will build scalable systems, focusing on high-performance, secure, and maintainable code.

You will collaborate across the stack with Java back-end services and ReactJS front-end work, align with DevOps practices including Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes, and participate in Kanban-driven development in a

Qualifications

Degree in Computer Science or related software engineering field, or equivalent practical experience.
2+ years of relevant work experience.
Strong backend engineering experience with Java, including building and maintaining production-grade services.
Working knowledge of ReactJS across the full stack daily.
Understanding of DevOps and Infrastructure as Code concepts (Terraform).
Understanding of relational and non-relational databases, messaging queues, and concurrency patterns.
Some experience with event streaming technologies.
Knowledge of AWS and cloud-based infrastructure.
Familiarity with containers (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
Understanding of modern backend architectures, design patterns, and distributed systems.
Experience with testing concepts and integrating testing best practices throughout the SDLC.
Experience working in an Agile environment (Kanban).

Responsibilities

Make existing systems simpler by consolidating redundant systems, deleting unnecessary code, or updating outdated documentation.
Solve straightforward problems, seeking input from team members.
Turn defined designs into code and deliver on schedule using current software engineering best practices.
Write secure, stable, testable, maintainable code with minimal defects.
Participate in team design, scoping and prioritization discussions.
Work effectively with team members and identify opportunities/problems from technical decisions.
Propose pragmatic solutions and be eager to learn and educate others.
Own parts of product and technology and strive to become a subject matter expert.
Write simple and extendable code following standards and test your code thoroughly.
Help team evolve through code reviews, design discussions, planning, and ticket reviews.
Document software to aid future developers in understanding intent behind features and components.
Troubleshoot and resolve defects in event of problems.
Provide excellent customer support.
Estimate stories/tasks and deliver on time.
Maintain ownership, urgency, and drive; contribute to on-call rotation.
Participate in on-call rotation for the organisation.