Staff Software Java Engineer at Staff Smart Inc. (San Diego, CA)

Our client is recognized as a global leader in interactive and digital entertainment, with a commitment to delivering superior gaming experiences. Their business division has locations in San Diego, San Francisco, London, and Tokyo. Everyone is committed to delivering an industry-leading, enhanced gaming experience built on imagination, creativity, and the teams profound passion for gaming. Be a part of a company that thrives on the cutting edge of technology and join them in shaping the future of interactive entertainment.

They are looking for a Staff Software Engineer for their office based in San Diego, CA.

Let's talk, if:

• You are passionate about making distributed systems better and have an insatiable thirst to keep learning.

• You have deep expertise in system engineering and have successfully improved the performance of the software stack.

• You know how to troubleshoot complicated issues throughout the software stack.

• You have implemented rigorous best practices for measuring, understanding, predicting, and improving the performance of enterprise-grade systems (even better if they happen to be Data oriented).

• You know how to build a strong partnership with Architects to influence technology decisions.

• You have led a development community establishing and influencing quality engineering best practices across the development community.

Role Requirements:

• Requires partnering across Product Management, Architects, Engineering, Hosting, and Operations. Position requires extensive hands-on technical expertise coupled with ingenuity, eCommerce platform domain expertise, associated technology product knowledge, broad industry knowledge, and excellent communication skills.

• Performs a key role in the evolution of a high-performance data platform and associated services, applying industry standard best practices and implementation to enable highly available, active-active, extensible data services for the platform

• Plays a senior role in design, development, and quality, working closely with engineering and quality teams.

• Works cross-functionally with Product and Operations teams to drive quality and including performance testing strategy and initiatives, define workflows and performance requirements. Develops test scripts and scenarios to meet these requirements.

• Participates in product road-map discussions and identify key areas for improvement in the product and incorporates these goals into ongoing & future development initiatives.

Qualifications:

• BS Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent experience.

• 10+ years experience in software development, expert level of Java programming, design, and analysis.

• Experience delivering high performance, active-active, scalable services (Enterprise Java/J2EE, Web Services, Big Data/NoSQL).

• Track record monitoring and analyzing system performance, isolating issues or bottlenecks that could impact reliability, performance, and scalability.

• Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL programming (Oracle, Cassandra, Amazon Aurora, DynamoDB or similar) including both relational database schema designs and schema-less systems.

• Hands-on experience in Amazon Web Services, at enterprise scale, is required including familiarity with DynamoDB, Aurora, EC2, and other AWS services.

• Experience executing performance testing and/or development efforts for a complex, high throughput system.

• Solid understanding of the path(s) customer requests take from web browser to back-end.

• Extensive experience with agile development methodologies and test driven development processes required.

• Must possess the drive and passion for quality with the ability to inspire, excite and motivate other team members.

• Must possess outstanding verbal and written communication skills, and be able to work with others at all levels, effective at working with geographically remote and culturally diverse teams.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any U.S. employer. Sponsorship is not available for this position.

Staff Smart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action

Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment

without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation,

gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability

status.

Some relocation assistance is available for this role.

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