New York, New york
Software Engineer Job Opening in New York, New york - Small, autonomous teams. Decentralized decision-making. Scala. NoSQL. Team ownership of end-to-end quality. Support for open source technologies. A friction-free production environment. Distributed systems. Continuous delivery. Simplicity. Automation. This is Gilt Tech.
Since Gilt?s founding in 2007, we?ve shifted from a monolithic Rails app to a system of hundreds of small services built in Scala. This evolution has enabled our team to achieve much faster release cycles than ever before, decreasing from days to minutes. Managing such a large number of services produces unique challenges. In addition the nature of our business provides it?s own set of concerns ranging from a daily ddos from customers to a growing footprint of dynamic personalization. There is always something new to learn.
The Opportunity
As a Gilt Senior Software Engineer, your main responsibility is to write concise, clear, flexible code, but you?ll do much more than that.
You will use a number of great technologies including Scala, Java, AWS, Akka, Play, etc.
You will partner closely with the Product team to design and implement A/B tests, understand the data, iterate and deploy winning experiences in production.
You will build innovative consumer facing products and experiences. We send messages across various messaging channels, including email, push notifications, sms, in-app notifications etc. that reach members across a variety of devices.
You will act as an entrepreneur, owning and identifying new ways to innovate without adding processes or management overhead.
You willl be a risk taker, encouraged to challenge yourself in new ways, from developing your own open-source projects to prestigious tech conferences.
Technical Requirements:
Fluency in technologies like Scala or Java
Exposure to messaging (RabbitMQ, Kafka,)
Source code management skills (Git)
Database technologies (SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL,MongoDB, DynamoDB, etc)
Fluency in web standards (HTTP, JSON) and RESTful APIs
Our Culture
We?re very passionate about preserving our culture of trust and autonomy. Anyone on our team can publish to our Tech Blog, give a presentation, develop an open source project, attend or speak at a conference, spend funds in the team budget, organize a meetup, or invite someone interesting over to our office for coffee and a chat. We embrace our creativity and are open to embracing yours.
Job Type: Full-time
Required education:
Bachelor's
Required experience:
Software Engineer: 2 years
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