Software Engineer – Build Scalable Services & Modern UIs

Roberts Recruiting, LLC; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology recruiting firm is seeking talented engineers for various projects. Responsibilities include developing back-end micro-services with Java 8 and creating web applications using JavaScript and React. Ideal candidates should be comfortable working in autonomous teams and have experience with modern tech stacks, including Kafka and Hadoop.

Qualifications

• Experience with Java 8 and modern JavaScript frameworks.
• Familiarity with micro-service architectures.
• Comfortable in a cross-functional team environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop back-end micro-services using Java 8.
• Create complex single-page applications using JavaScript and React.
• Build and maintain data infrastructure for service reliability.

Skills

Java 8

RESTful APIs

Kafka

Spark

Hadoop

JavaScript

React

ECMAScript 6

Sass

HBase

Elastic Search

ZooKeeper

Redis

MySQL

Memcached

Job description

We’re looking for top engineering talent to join our small, customer-driven development teams to work on a variety of projects including:

• Back End:We write lots of micro-services, primarily with Java 8. Our APIs are RESTful and use the minimal Dropwizard framework. We take advantage of Kafka, Spark, Hadoop for processing volumes of data.
• Core Data, Infrastructure, & Reliability:Building the systems that power thousands of services with Singularity on Apache Mesos, and empowering access to massive datasets with HBase, Elastic Search, ZooKeeper, Redis, MySQL, and Memcached.
• Contributing to our open source projects is a plus.

Our apps are owned and developed by small, autonomous, cross-functional teams. You and your team set the goals, set the timelines, build the software, go to user tests etc.

Instead of trying to fill specific titles, we hire talented people at all seniority levels and work with them to find the role that suits them bes