• Experience mentoring or acting in a lead capacity, (junior) architect with hands-on preferred
• BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline or equivalent combination of training and experience
• 3+ years core Scala experience: building business logic layers and back-end systems for high-volume pipelines/API
• Experience with spark streaming and Scala
• Current experience in Spark, Hadoop, MapReduce and HDFS
• Experience with SQL (RDBMS), NO-SQL (MongoDB)
• Experience with NiFi a plus
• Experience with high-speed messaging frameworks and streaming (kafka, akka, reactive)
• Understanding of data flows, data architecture, ETL and processing of structured and unstructured data
• Current experience developing and deploying applications to a public cloud (AWS, GCE)
• Experience with DevOps tools (GitHub, TravisCI, Jira) and methodologies (Lean, Agile, Scrum, Test Driven Development)
• Experience with GoLang a plus
• Ability to work quickly with an eye towards writing clean code that is efficient and reusable
• Ability to build prototypes for new features that will delight our users and are consistent with business goals
• Ability to iterate quickly in an agile development process
• Ability to learn new technologies and evaluate multiple technologies to solve a problem
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Strong work ethic and entrepreneurial spirit