Application Development Senior Advisor

Candidates will need to have experience with medium-to-large-scale web development.

Ability to develop within "full" technology stack.

Be part of a fast moving team, working with the latest tools and open source technologies

Design and develop our next generation of RESTful APIs and Event driven services in a distributed environment

Use advanced, distributed technologies to process, store, and quickly retrieve huge volumes of data

Work on a development team using agile methodologies

Required Skills:


* 10+ years of work experience in application engineering


* Experience with scripting languages such as JavaScript, Typescript, Ruby, or Python


* Experience with React (preferred), React Native (preferred), Angular 2+, or Ember.


* Web application development experience with compiled languages such as Java, Groovy, C#, or Go


* Solid understanding of OOP, Design Patterns, Data Structures and Web Standards


* Solid understanding of JavaScript, HTML and CSS


* Strong understanding of parallel processing, concurrency and asynchronous concepts


* Strong experience with Event Driven Architecture (preferred)


* Experience with developing RESTful web services


* Experience with Linux


* Strong experience with enterprise level N-tier web applications


* Experience with Frameworks/Apps such as Express, Grails, Spring MVC


* Experience in writing native SQL queries


* Relational Database - experience using Oracle, MySQL/MariaDB, Postgres, or SQLServer


* NoSql Database - DynamoDb, MongoDB, Cassandra


* Caching - Redis, Memcached


* Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Google App Engine, or Heroku)


* Experience with Application Monitoring Tools (Splunk, Cloudwatch, Dynatrace etc)


* Strong experience with enterprise security Including IAM Roles & Policies, Auth0/Okta, Encryption, API Gateways, Firewalls, Private Cloud)


* Strong experience with Continuous Integration/Deployments (Jenkins/Terraform/Git Lab Runners)

Nice-to-haves


* Experience with Node


* Experience in SSO (SAML, OPENID)


* Knowledge of search solutions such as Lucene, Solr, or ElasticSearch


* Experience in architecting and designing distributed systems that are highly available and security focused


* Experience with designing event-based systems


* Understanding Queue/Messaging services- JMS, Amazon SQS, MS MQ, etc.


* Experience with single-page applications

If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload.

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