Java Backend Engineer

Our Company

We’re Hitachi Digital Services, a global digital solutions and transformation business with a bold vision of our world’s potential. We’re people-centric and here to power good. Every day, we future-proof urban spaces, conserve natural resources, protect rainforests, and save lives. This is a world where innovation, technology, and deep expertise come together to take our company and customers from what’s now to what’s next. We make it happen through the power of acceleration.

Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to bring a better tomorrow closer to today. We don’t expect you to ‘fit’ every requirement – your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.

The team

We are looking for a strong Scala backend engineer with microservices experience to work in a small, agile team. The team develops client-facing REST APIs that provide data for IP TV (television over the internet), for functionality such as consumer entitlement verification, on / off-net verification, parental control verification, and settings.

The technology stack includes Scala, Scalatra, Memcached, Kafka, MongoDB, docker, Kubernetes, Splunk and Datadob. All code is written in a functional style, and is fully asynchronous using Scala Futures. The team works at scale, handling hundreds of millions of REST calls per day.

The role

Actively and consistently supports all efforts to simplify and enhance the customer experience.

Code and perform unit and integration testing of software to ensure proper and efficient execution and adherence to business and technical requirements.

Code, test, debug, and enhance software.

Write programs according to specifications, and define specifications for complex programs.

Monitor and repair critical systems on an as needed basis.

Develop and maintain technical documentation.

Serve as final escalation point to resolve incidents and problems for production applications and web services supported by the team in accordance with identified Service Level Agreements.

Collaborate with internal customers, technical and architecture teams to solve complex software problems.

Provide system users and management with system analysis and improvement recommendations.

Identify and recommend system design / requirements needs for software enhancements.

Implement, monitor, test, and audit new software programs to maximize efficiency of software systems.

Participate in continuous performance improvement sessions to discuss opportunities to improve processes and / or standards.

Coordinate with technical teams to analyze and resolve software related problems causing operational difficulties, advising on specialized features and functions.

Maximize the efficiency of the various software systems by implementing, monitoring, testing and auditing new software programs.

Follow established configuration / change control processes.

Collaborate with customers and internal / external technical teams to identify software problems and communicate remediation plans

Mentor and coach junior team members.

What you’ll bring

Technologies

Strong experience with Scala back end API implementation

Understanding of MongoDB or other NoSQL databases

Strong mindset with a willingness to learn new domains and technologies

Expertise in end-to-end understanding of the system and testing the services

Experience with test-driven development and automated testing frameworks

Experience using AWS managed services

Experience with caching architectures, particularly Memcached

Strong experience with containerization and container orchestration, (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Istio, Argo, etc).

Strong experience with monitoring technologies (Splunk, Instana, Datadog, Prometheus, etc).

Knowledge of API documentation, especially Swagger (OpenAPI)

Experience using CI / CD automation (Jenkins, Gitlab)

Skills / Abilities and Knowledge

Ability to read, write, speak and understand English

Strong experience working with DevOps engineers to build and deploy infrastructure with cloud deployment technologies.

Strong Understanding of Scrum / Agile development methodologies.

Capable of delivering on multiple competing priorities with little supervision.

Experience with building and designing REST APIs using scala.

Experience with software security principles and patterns.

Ability to collaborate with and contribute to a common culture of excellence.

Experience with test-driven development and automated testing frameworks.

Must be capable of delivering on multiple competing priorities with little supervision.

As required by the equal pay and transparency acts, the expected base salary for this position is : $110k-$120k base+ bonus.

The expected pay is determined based on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, depth of experience in the practice area. Employees are eligible to participate in Hitachi Digital Services bonus / variable / commission pay programs, where applicable, and are subject to the program’s conditions and restrictions.

About us

We’re a global, team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can make a positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can bring a better tomorrow closer to today, this is the place for you.

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