Intermediate Developer

Job Description: Responsibilities:

• Design and build API endpoints for our internal and public APIs.
• Implement monitoring systems for performance bottlenecks on our main datastore.
• Determine through performance profiling, where to add caching to our distributed systems and internal interfaces.
• Write effective high-quality code with a focus on performance and maintainability.
• Create reliable tests and work closely with our QA team for end-to-end testing.

 Education & Experience:

• Experience coding in OOP as well as functional programming paradigms
• Experience building complex systems with many moving parts, such as different protocols, varying restrictions on latency or CAP parameters
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD systems is a bonus.
• Excellent knowledge of static type systems and compiled languages.
• Knowledge of various data stores such as relational databases (SQL), document stores, key-value stores or queuing systems, Lucene bases. search engines, as well as their performance characteristics and scalability issues.
• Good understanding of caching and cache invalidation strategies.

Key Skills:

• Database knowledge.
• Data structures and algorithms. 
• Source control. 
• Testing procedures. 
• Debugging knowledge.