Senior Software Engineer

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About Employ
Employ empowers organizations of all sizes to overcome their greatest recruiting and talent acquisition challenges. Offering a combination of purpose-built intelligent software technologies, services, and industry expertise, Employ provides businesses of all sizes with powerful solutions for recruiting a diverse workforce. Through its JazzHR, Lever and Jobvite technologies and NXTThing RPO services, Employ serves more than 21,000 customers across all industries. For more information, visit us at: www.employinc.com.    

What You Will Do
As a Senior Engineer you will be entrusted with the design and development of web-based SaaS products that delight our customers and scale out to millions of users. Your responsibilities include collaborating with a high performing team to take products and features from inception through agile development and into our customer's hands. As part of your job, you will work closely with product owners, designers, and other software engineers to come up with product designs, product features, and eventually build them in a rapid innovation environment. You'll collaborate with architects to build a scalable platform to support Employ's rapid growth. Through it all, you will be on the lookout for new technologies and techniques that you can turn into products and help Employ maintain reputation as an innovation leader.

Must have:

• Must have Product development experience
• BS or MS in Computer Science or closely related field.     
• 4+ years of professional experience in building and designing SaaS based web applications.  
• Proven backend development skills with experience in Java, SOAP/REST APIs, MySQL/PostgreSQL.
• Experience working with Product Management to build and release products in an agile environment.     
• Familiar with SDLC tools like Ant, Maven, Gradle, Git, Jenkins.     
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to explain complex problems to technical and non-technical audience. 
• Proficient in writing automated tests, system debugging and secure coding practices.
• Flexibility to jump between projects and different technologies.

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of open-source technologies such as Apache Kafka, Memcached, Redis. 
• Sound knowledge of any cloud-based providers
• Knowledge around how AWS services and deployments work.