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Spinnaker Search Group LLC Looking for Software Engineer – Java at Mountain View, CA Full Time
Our firm has been exclusively retained to help support the growth of an innovative, mission-driven software company that is a leader in the EdTech space. They are looking to grow the organization in several areas and currently they are focused on hiring a full-stack Software Engineer to help their cross-functional teams rally around common goals and deliver valuable features frequently – sometimes multiple times a day. The Software Engineers truly work across the full-stack from HTML to SQL, emphasizing collaboration, learning and fast feedback, including pair programming and regular (constructive!) code reviews. Their EdTech web platform is a massive distributed system and the tech stack is centered around Java and utilizes Angular/React front-end with MySQL / noSQL back-end.
Responsibilities:
- Serve in a senior, hands-on software engineering capacity designing, developing and delivering end-to-end website features and solutions across the full application stack in an iterative manner
- Collaborate on a cross-functional Scrum team to deliver against a product road map
- Participate in brainstorm-sessions, design discussions, code reviews, A/B testing (of features) and automated test development
- Assume full ownership of the code you write and push to production (Jenkins). Find a bug, fix it, and release back into production ASAP.
- Take initiative to get questions answered, unblock on-going development, and make everyone on your team successful
Background Profile:
- BS or MS in Computer Science or related field and 5+ years’ experience working with object-oriented design, relational databases, data structures and multi-threaded algorithms
- Strong experience in full-stack software development centered around Java (Spring) and front-end javascript (React/Flux or Angular).
- Experience working with relational databases (MySQL) and noSQL (Cassandra) hosted on AWS
- Experience with participating in code reviews, testing, deploying code (and supporting it).
- Desire to work in a collaborative, self-organizing, team-based environment built around Scrum
Desired / Preferred Experience
- Experience building and deploying mobile apps in a modern app development framework (i.e. Ionic, Flutter, or React Native)
- Professional experience with Machine learning, Data Analysis, SQL query optimization and tuning (MySQL preferred)
- Exposure to working with online marketing, search engine optimization, and/or lead generation concepts.
