Software Engineer (Java/Big Data)

Equifax Inc.; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Equifax, Inc. in Alpharetta, GA, seeks experienced Software Engineers to design, develop, and operate high-scale applications across the full stack.

You will work with Java, SpringBoot, and cloud-native tools in a cross-functional team, focusing on modern practices like CI/CD, serverless architectures, and IaC. Ideal candidates have 5+ years in software engineering, strong cloud experience (GCP, AWS, Azure), and hands-on data pipeline and data-modeling skills.

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
• Experience designing and implementing data models and optimization to improve 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 data fabrics and toolsets.
• Participate in technology roadmap and architecture discussions with a globally distributed team.
• Stay up-to-date with trends in GCP and related technologies; propose new solutions.
• Implement data quality checks and troubleshoot data anomalies.
• Develop and implement data security best practices in pipelines and infra.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

CI/CD

Git

Distributed systems

Cloud concepts

Data pipelines

Data modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

GKE/Kubernetes

Dataflow

Apache Beam

BigQuery

Pub/Sub

Airflow/Composer

GCP SDKs

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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