Lead Software Engineer

Unisys; Rockville (MD); Remote; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits

Great work-life balance

Health insurance

Robust professional development opportunities

Job summary

A leading technology firm is seeking a Senior Full Stack Developer with experience in big data technologies to join their team. This role offers flexibility with remote work, competitive benefits, and the opportunity to work on innovative projects. Responsibilities include designing and developing technical solutions, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and developing an API platform using AWS. Ideal candidates will have strong leadership skills, experience with REST APIs, and a passion for technology.

Qualifications

• 2+ years’ REST/web services experience and writing complex SQL queries against Relational databases.
• 3+ years of experience working with big data technologies (e.g. Hadoop, Spark, Presto).
• Basic understanding of one or more scripting languages (Unix Shell, Python, Perl, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Work on an Agile development team to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions.
• Collaborate with the cross-functional team to understand desired application capabilities.
• Develop API platform to serve big data at interactive speed.

Skills

Communication

Influence

Passion for technology

Education

Software Engineering

Tools

AWS

Hadoop

Spark

Presto

Jenkins

CloudFormation

Job description

The firm owns the world’s biggest financial data store and runs continuous analytics on global stock data movement. Our mission is to ensure investor protection and market integrity. We are constantly working on how to hack market systems with the goal of being ahead of potential bad actors in the market. Offering competitive benefits, great work life balance, forever-remote status-quo work, health insurance, and robust professional development opportunities! Our technical environment is one of the most respected in the industry and serves a real public interest, meaning you can go home happy with the work you do and work on progressive technology.

Role: Full Stack Developer with Data Engineer

Location: Rockville, MD or Tysons Corner, VA

Description

As a Senior Full Stack Engineer on our team, you’ll be expected to lead by example, write great code, solve difficult problems, set a high bar for the team around you and help them achieve engineering excellence. We want you to execute on “your” ideas, challenge the status quo and generally make things better. You will need the soft skills too; Communication, influence, and passion are critical to the success of the team and ultimately the company.

Responsibilities

Work on an Agile development team to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions using deep expertise in distributed microservices, big-data technologies (HIVE, Presto, Spark, Hadoop, etc.) and full-stack systems.

Collaborate with the cross-functional team to understand desired application capabilities and testing scenarios and deliver technical solutions to those objectives.

Develop API platform to serve big data at interactive speed; built on AWS using AWS Well-architected principles.

Bring a passion to stay on top of tech trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, and participate in internal & external technology communities to drive innovation.

Demonstrate growth mindset, ownership, customer obsession, and strong judgement.

Qualifications

Software Engineering with demonstrated leadership traits.

2+ years’ REST/web services experience and writing complex SQL queries against Relational databases

3+ years of experience working with big data technologies (e.g. Hadoop, Spark, Presto)

Experience working with the following technology stack: Amazon Web Services (AWS), EMR Hive/Presto, ECS, Lambda, S3, DevOps and CI/CD, Jenkins, CloudFormation

Basic understanding of one or more scripting languages (Unix Shell, Python, Perl, etc.)