Java Backend Engineer

Company: Symantrix Inc
Location: Hoboken
Posted on: February 20, 2021

Job Description:

Position: Java Backend EngineerLocation: 221 River Street, 7th Floor, Hoboken, New Jersey- 07030Duration: 6+ Months DescriptionYour main goals are to: - Power Walmart inventory system, handling billions of events daily.- Maximize on-site availability while minimizing reject rates due to lack of inventory.- Give more insight to our marketing and operations teams via more historical data and improved analytics.- Unify inventory management responsibilities currently spread across multiple systems and teams.- Debug production issues with other teams across services and multiple levels of the stack. Requirements: - Top-notch programming skills, with an interest in functional programming languages. We use F# right now but are transitioning to Java.- Solid understanding of designing, developing and supporting large scale, cloud based distributed systems.- Exposure to event based and asynchronous processing.- Strong operational excellence and testing skills.- Someone who values automation. We don't like solving the same problem manually over and over.- Experience working with distributed databases (Cosmos/Cassandra/etc) Nice to Have: - Fluent in a few programming languages, functional, dynamic and static.- Solid understanding of how to use data structures to solve problems optimally.- Good understanding of event-driven systems.- Experience with Apache Kafka or similar streaming platform.- Understands DevOps: how to support large scale distributed systems, how to prioritize and escalate issues. - provided by Dice

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