Software Engineer (Java/Big Data)

Equifax, Inc.; Alpharetta (GA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Equifax is seeking creative, high-energy Software Engineers to design, develop, and operate high-scale applications using modern practices. The role emphasizes cloud-native microservices, CI/CD, and data pipelines within an Alpharetta, GA office.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in software engineering, strong Git/CI-CD skills, and experience with GCP, Kubernetes, Java, and SpringBoot. The team collaborates across functions and embraces security, data quality, and scalable architectures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• 5+ years experience with Cloud technology: GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• 5+ years experience designing and developing microservices using Java, SpringBoot, GCP SDKs, GKE/Kubernetes.
• Intermediate level understanding of Google Cloud Platforms and cloud concepts.
• Experience building and maintaining moderately‑complex data pipelines and transforming data for downstream use.
• Experience designing data models and optimizing for performance.
• Advanced Git usage and CI/CD integration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and operate high-scale applications across the full engineering stack.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software.
• Apply modern software development practices (serverless, microservices, CI/CD, IaC).
• Work across teams to integrate systems with internal tools and Data Fabric.
• Participate in architecture discussions to turn requirements into reality with a distributed team.
• Stay up‑to‑date with GCP and related technologies and propose new solutions.
• Implement security best practices in pipelines and infrastructure.
• Develop data quality checks and troubleshoot data anomalies.

Skills

Git usage & CI/CD

Problem solving

Communication

Security best practices

Data quality

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

GCP SDKs

GKE/Kubernetes

Java

SpringBoot

Job description

Equifax is seeking creative, high-energy and driven Software Engineers with hands‑on development skills to work on a variety of meaningful projects. Our software engineering positions provide you the opportunity to join a team of talented engineers working with leading-edge technology. You are ideal for this position if you are a forward-thinking, committed, and enthusiastic software engineer who is passionate about technology.

• We believe great things happen when teams connect. Our schedule is built around 4 days of high-impact, in‑office collaboration (Monday–Thursday), paired with Friday Flexibility to wrap up your week remotely.
• This role reports to our office in Alpharetta, Georgia.
• This position does not offer immigration sponsorship (current or future) including F-1 STEM OPT extension support.
• This is a direct-hire role and is not open to C2C or vendors

What you’ll do

• Design, develop, and operate high scale applications across the full engineering stack.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software.
• Apply modern software development practices (serverless computing, microservices architecture, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, etc.)
• Work across teams to integrate our systems with existing internal systems, Data Fabric, CSA Toolset.
• Participate in technology roadmap and architecture discussions to turn business requirements and vision into reality. Participate in a tight‑knit, globally distributed engineering team.
• Stay up‑to‑date with the latest trends and advancements in GCP and related technologies, actively proposing and evaluating new solutions.
• Understand best practices for data management, maintenance, reporting and security and use that knowledge to implement improvements in our solutions.
• Implement security best practices in pipelines and infrastructure.
• Develop and implement data quality checks and troubleshoot data anomalies.

What experience you need

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• 5+ years experience with Cloud technology: GCP, AWS, or Azure
• 5+ years experience designing and developing microservices using Java, SpringBoot, GCP SDKs, GKE/Kubernetes
• Intermediate level understanding and experience with Google Cloud Platforms and overall cloud computing concepts, as well as basic knowledge of other cloud environments
• Experience building and maintaining moderately‑complex data pipelines, troubleshooting issues, transforming and entering data into a data pipeline in order for the content to be digested and usable for future projects
• Experience designing and implementing moderately complex data models and experience enabling optimization to improve performance
• Demonstrates advanced Git usage and CI/CD integration skills

What could set you apart

• Experience designing and developing big data processing solutions using Dataflow/Apache Beam, Bigtable, BigQuery, PubSub, GCS, Composer/Airflow, and others
• Any AI Model Development Experience
• In‑depth, hands‑on experience with BigData tools such as Apache Spark or Apache Beam.
• Proven experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services that include Dataflow, Dataproc, BigQuery, and Pub/Sub.
• Experience with workflow orchestration tools like Apache Airflow (or GCP's Cloud Composer).
• Solid understanding of data modeling, data warehousing, and ETL/ELT best practices.
• Background of Large Data Analysis and building AI ML Models would be a huge plus.
• Excellent problem‑solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex distributed systems.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders

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