Description:
The platform is designed to support all our analytics, data science, and data applications. Guidewire’s data platform already processes Billions of real-time data to provide a rich set of AI/ML SaaS solutions! You will work in a highly collaborative environment building next-generation platforms and services using the latest and greatest cutting-edge & bleeding-edge technologies. You will have fun building cloud-native, enterprise-grade, and internet-scale platforms and SaaS applications.
Required Skills
- 8+ years' experience working in a similar Senior Software Engineer role within a data platform/data engineering team
- Experience building and maintaining Spring Boot applications.
- Extensive experience with Big Data and distributed systems.
- Ability to design large-scale distributed systems.
- Prior experience in building data platforms using Big Data stack (Spark, Iceberg, Kafka, AWS Redshift, AWS EMR ..) on the public cloud.
- Excellent programming skills in Java and SQL.
- Understanding of distributed systems concepts and principles (consistency and availability, liveness and safety, durability, reliability, fault-tolerance, consensus algorithms).
- Deep understanding of Algorithms, Data Structures, and Performance Optimization Techniques.
- Eager to learn new things and passionate about technology!.
- Comfortable working with Kubernetes, AWS, Docker, and Terraform/CloudFormation.
What You Would Do
- Hands-on coding and implementation of high-performance data processing applications, leveraging your deep understanding of distributed computing and data processing.
- Designing and optimizing Spark applications.
- Design cloud-native data platform and analytics SaaS services
- Own architecture and provide technical leadership to multiple teams
- Hands-on coding>60% of the time
- Design and build large-scale real-time stream processing systems
- Design and develop micro-services and analytics SaaS solutions
- Own scalability, availability, and data security
- Own, tackle & resolve code defects
- Mentor junior developers in standards and best practices!
What You Would Need To Succeed
- Extensive experience working on a public cloud-like AWS
- Prior experience and passion for building a large-scale multi-tenant cloud-native data platform
- Emphasize team wins over individual success
- Strong technical interpersonal skills
- Excellent software development skills in one or more of the following languages: Java/Kotlin/Python
- Extensive experience with Big Data and distributed systems
- Ability to design large-scale distributed systems
- Have developed in more than one language and ready to pivot to any language/framework
- Understand microservices architecture patterns pattern like Service Discovery/API Gateway/Domain Driven Design etc
- Experience with containers technology
- Ability to work in an agile fast-paced environment
- BS or MS degree (Computer Science or Math)