Golang Job: Clojure Developer

Role: Clojure Developer
Location: Philadelphia PA 3-4 days onsite per week
Duration: Until end of year + potential extensions

Locals who don t need to relocate will be considered first.

Required Skills Set:

Years of Experience: 8+

Education Required: Bachelors Degree or Equivalent Work Experience

• B in Computer Science or related Engineering is required, a Master s degree is desirable
• 8+ years of proven, hands-on track-record as a software engineer, focused on cloud-based systems
• Mastery of a variety of programming languages Clojure, Java, Python, but knowledge of Golang or JavaScript (NodeJS) are desirable. You must have strong Java Development skills, preferably with Ver. 1.8
• Proven track record developing cloud-based services (SaaS) and platforms (PaaS)
• Proven hands-on in-depth experience of AWS is required, both in terms of traditional technologies (e.g. EC2, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, ) as well as more recent cutting-edge paradigms (e.g. Lambda, API Gateway, Fargate, ).
• Proven experience of developing microservices and complex microservice-based platform architectures
• Excellent understanding of distributed systems, designing for scalability, performance and availability
• Experience of establishing non-functional best-practices and deploying supporting technologies for improving platform security (including audit) and reliability (latency, availability, scalability)
• Knowledge of distributed network architectures and network security is required
• Good knowledge of data persistence technologies including relational databases and no-SQL solutions
• Excellent interpersonal and technical communication with peers, and non-peers alike, with a can-do attitude
• 3+ years in teams applying modern agile software development practices #LI-FM

Project Description:

• Creation, management and operation of a diverse set of microservices and microapplications.
• Define common frameworks and software libraries, in various programming languages, that support the creation of efficient, scalable and highly available microservice-based architectures.
• Support with the management of the running system architecture. You will troubleshoot issues and identify areas for continuous improvement with a particular emphasis on quality, performance and security.
• Work closely with architects and technical product managers and other members of your team to translate overall system architecture and product requirements into well-designed, implemented and tested software solutions.
• Work in an Agile environment to deliver high-quality software in an incremental manner.
• Help promote the adoption of best-in-class software engineering practices, frameworks, and tools. You are providing guidance and feedback to other software developers.

Additional Details

Key skills:

• AWS
• Clojure
• ClojureScript
• Redis
• Kafka
• PostgreSQL
• HashiCorp stack