Job Description :
Title: Senior Software Engineer – SWAT
Location: Walnut Creek, California
Length: 6 months plus
Key Responsibilities:
Understand, validate, resolve and verify any customer-reported and customer-impacting issues.
Translates the client’s business requirements into specific systems, applications or process designs for very large complex solutions and integrating architecture
Identify, investigate and solve deep, gnarly issues throughout our production environment based on metrics, monitors, tools, and other lenses into production operations you help to establish and utilize
Assist in the delivery of production support, troubleshooting, and bug-fixes to get an in-depth knowledge of all product lines
Willing to solve difficult scaling/load-and-performance (L&P) problems by simulating production traffic, measuring stress or “break” points, and driving to a solution with little direction, and working cooperatively with other members of your SWAT team.
Active member of performance tracking and triage team reacting to critical production alerts.
Required Skills:
Excellent analytical, engineering and verbal communication skills.
Experience in the Payments or high volume transaction processing applications
Broad engineering experience and proven track record in e-commerce, enterprise, high performance, large scale web / transaction processing technologies including cloud based APIs and protocols (SOAP,REST, JSON)
8+ years experience developing with Java, or another Object Oriented language.
Experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases such as: MS SQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra;
Experience with distributed version control system, such as Git;
Passion for best practices in computer science disciplines, deployments and code management.
BS in Computer Science, Engineering or a related academic field, or equivalent professional experience.
Desired Skills:
Experience with Amazon or Azure Cloud Hosting Services
Demonstrated success implementing high performance, scalable systems
Passion for learning. This is vital for growth in such a broad and dynamic role.
APM tools like NewRelic, AppDynamics