Sr. Software Engineer - Java/REST API/AWS

Our Client is looking to hire a Sr. Software Engineer to be part of their Social Syndication
team. The Social Syndication team is responsible for building and growing services and APIs that
allow customers to easily:

• Publish and manage video posts on an ever-growing number of social platforms such as
  YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
• Collect and aggregate insightful social analytics data.
• Syndicate video metadata to enable seamless integration with customer and other third
  party systems.
• Perform essential pre-publication tasks such as video clipping.
  Benefits:
• You will work on a well-established project that nonetheless has excellent product growth
  potential, with lots of new work in the pipeline.
• You will work with a wide variety of technologies and third party libraries and APIs.
• You will work at a great company with many opportunities for career growth and lateral
  movement.

Job Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, deploy, test, support and monitor secure, performant, and highly
  scalable cloud services and APIs for use by other components as well as
  external customers
• Provide operational support for the platform
• Work in an agile environment with a team of engineers to create new product features
  and to streamline/enhance existing solutions and workflows
• Develop systems in the cloud (AWS)
• Develop clean, high quality code

Qualifications/Experience:

• Minimum 5+ years professional software development experience
• Professional experience coding complex Java-based backend services
• Experience with AWS and with using the AWS SDK to interact with AWS cloud services
  (we leverage DynamoDB, SNS, SQS, S3, Lambda, ElasticSearch, CloudFront, and a bunch
  more!)
• Experience with building cloud applications at scale, and ability to design and implement
  services that exhibit excellent performance, robustness, and efficiency under load.
• Experience designing and implementing REST API services as well as client applications that interact with third party REST API services.
• Ability to solve difficult problems, write thorough unit tests, and communicate well both verbally and in writing.

Nice to have:

• Direct experience working with social platform APIs (Facebook Graph API, etc...) and
  SDKs.
• Experience with the Dropwizard REST service framework
• Experience with containerized application technologies like docker and kubernetes
• Javascript development experience
• Exposure to DataDog, SumoLogic
• CI/CD (TeamCity, Jenkins)
• Terraform

This is a contract position. 😎