Java Developer – Candidate Pool

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This is a Candidate Pool – it means you are not applying for one position in particular. We will contact you based on your profile and experience when an opportunity arises.

Our clients, US based companies, are looking to bring on Senior Java Backend Engineers that will be part of great teams responsible for solving some complex backend problems.

Engineering is a craft, and we want the internals of our software to be as elegant as the end-user experience we are designing. We spend our days scaling our infrastructure and building new features to meet and exceed our user’s needs and wants. We teach and learn from one another, and push each other to be at our creative and analytical bests.

What you’ll do

  • Design and implement new services using cutting-edge technologies to support our clients in achieving their business goals.
  • Collaborate with the architecture teams to develop robust, portable, and interoperable solutions to the difficult problems faced by growing organizations.
  • Collaborate with the Information Security team to keep the client, and its customers, safe from emerging security threats.
  • Take an active role in reducing the technical debt in their various codebases.
  • Triage, debug, and assure the timely resolution of software defects.

The ideal candidate will be a backend developer with strong experience writing Java and /or Python services, using MySQL and other NoSQL databases. You will be responsible for making engineering design decisions and developing features pertaining to the services that are the backbone of our client. You will be expected to be a role model on coding standards, frameworks, platforms, and other best practices for the rest of our client’s engineering team.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of previous working experience in Java back-end
  • Hands-on working experience in Docker framework
  • Expertise in architecting and developing scalable software solutions with microservices in Spring Boot framework.
  • Experience with Apache Kafka or Confluent Kafka in high volume environments.
  • Working experience on Cassandra and caching solutions (e.g. Redis, ElastiCache).
  • Strong understanding of algorithms and data structures.
  • Strong understanding of design patterns including why and where a pattern should be used.
  • Understanding of accessibility and security compliance.

Benefits

  • We believe that great work happens where people feel inspired and challenged. These are just a few things we offer to make this happen.
    • Compensation in US Dollars.
    • Full remote position – 100% work from home.
    • Referral program with economic rewards
    • Regular events and a shop where you can exchange coins for prices (Thaloz Rewards).
    • English classes.
    • Online Workout sessions.
    • Thaloz house (co-working space and hostel in Montevideo, Uruguay where you can stay for free!)