The Execu|Search Group Looking for Back-End Software Engineer (Remote) at New York, NY Full Time

A technology company in New York City has a great Remote opportunity awaiting a new Back-End Software Engineer with their growing staff. In this role, Back-End Software Engineer (Remote) will be responsible for helping to grow the company’s microservices and API layer which sit atop our Big Data infrastructure.

Responsibilities:
The Back-End Software Engineer (Remote) will be responsible for:

• Designing, building, testing and deploying scalable, reusable and maintainable applications that handle large amounts of data
• Authoring, updating, and debugging API microservices; contributing to API design and architecture
• Performing code reviews and providing leadership and guidance to Junior Developers
• Learning and teaching new technologies
• Performing other duties, as needed

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of solid Coding experience working in Python
• Associate’s and/or Bachelor’s Degree
• Experience with RESTful APIs (data caching, JWT auth, API load testing, RAML)
• Experience with Linux/Unix Systems and fluency in Bash
• Experience with the microservices, containers (Docker), container orchestration (Kubernetes), serverless computing (AWS Lambda) and distributed/scalable systems.
• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Passion for writing good documentation and creating architecture diagrams
• Experience processing and analyzing large data sets
• Familiarity with working with data and databases (SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora, Redis, Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery)
• Knowledge of AWS or other cloud environments (Google Cloud Platform/Azure) a plus.
• Passion for data-driven software
• Great interpersonal skills
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
• Strong attention to detail
• Highly organized

Desired Skills:

• Experience with Javascript or other languages (Go, C/C++,)
• Knowledge of AWS or other cloud environments (Google Cloud Platform/Azure)