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SR Backend Java Engineer; Distributed Systems

1 Month ago • 8 Years + • Backend Development

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Job Description

This role involves designing and developing large-scale distributed systems for a company handling billions of daily transactions and petabytes of data. Responsibilities include designing next-generation services, migrating to public cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP), developing and maintaining high-performance REST web services, and optimizing systems for 200+ million active users. The engineer will deploy, monitor, and operate global production systems, automate infrastructure, lead projects, mentor junior team members, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. Strong experience in distributed systems and Java is required.

Must have:

8+ years Java experience
Large-scale distributed systems experience
Async programming, memory management, JVM internals
Public cloud experience (AWS, GCP)
OOP (Java, C++), algorithms, data structures
NoSQL & Key/Value databases
Kubernetes
REST web services development

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Job Summary: We’re hiring a SR Backend Java Engineer with a strong background in large scale distributed systems. You’ll work on one of the largest distributed systems in the world, running on thousands of machines and handling petabytes of data. You’ll be developing infrastructure and solving many technical challenges in the areas of distributed computing frameworks, data structures and algorithms. This team develops and maintains high-performing systems to be used by roughly 200 million plus active users. We develop technology that changes the internet while handling billions of inbound connections per day to manage trillions of messages requiring petabytes of efficient storage.

You will be designing and implementing next generation services. Our customer is embarking on a transition from data centers to Public cloud infrastructure, and you will work on a complete Java stack that serves hundreds of billions of transactions daily. Develop and maintain REST web-services that power our services, caching and data processing.

Work Location: Canadian Rackers may work remotely from these provinces... Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta.

Key Responsibilities:

Design and develop large-scale distributed systems that balance resources, constraints, requirements, and complexity
Deploy, monitor and operate large scale production systems distributed across the globe
Automate the provisioning, CI/CD pipelines, and management of our infrastructure
Lead projects and mentor junior team members
Participate in agile development with weekly sprints, planning & estimating work, daily standup, & retrospective
Effectively collaborate with other engineers and cross-functional teams
Recommend alternative approaches to solving complex problems and use new technology to achieve goals

Qualifications:

Strong experience in large-scale distributed systems
BS in Computer Science (or equivalent experience) experience
8+ years of Java experience
Experience in async programming, memory management, JVM internals.
Experience in implementing and/or operating highly scalable and available services on public cloud environments (AWS, GCP)
Experience with OOP: Java, C++, or similar
Solid understanding of CS fundamentals (algorithms, data structures, object oriented programming)
Familiar with HTTP and TCP/IP protocol
Experience with development on Unix (Linux) platform
Experience with NoSQL and Key/Value datastores, e.g redis/mongodb/memcached
Experience with kubernetes
Experience with connection tuning, performance tuning, optimization

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