Senior SW Engineer (Systems Engineer)

About the job:

One of the Boston area's fastest growing technology companies, we are the only social media site dedicated to empowering the world's workforce. We are a social media platform that connects our 90 million+ members to each other and potential employers.

We are looking for a Systems Engineer responsible for optimizing and enhancing our core technology infrastructure.You’ll be solving problems associated with all of our capabilities such as our high-performance job search engine, scalable content recommendation service, machine learning platform, integrated consumer communications system, and others. As a member of our growing team, you will be responsible for the performance, stability, and enhancement of our deployed software infrastructure and work with other engineers throughout our rigorous, highly-collaborative process.

What you’ll be doing here:

• Writing tested, idiomatic, and documented Java

• Diagnosing and solving systems problems

• Optimizing software at scale

• Extending the data infrastructure to handle the evolving needs of the business

• Constantly learning new things

About you and your skills:

• Proficiency with enterprise Java

• BS degree in Computer Science or related field

• Highly-developed written communication skills and attention to detail

• Familiarity with relational database technologies such as MySQL

• Familiarity with full-text search technologies such as ElasticSearch

• Familiarity with distributed computing technologies such as Apache Ignite

• Familiarity with single page application frameworks such as AngularJS

• Experience working in a multi-threaded environment

About Us:

• Affiliated partner of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, CSAIL

• We cover 100% of both medical and dental

• We pay for employee parking/MBTA costs

• Unlimited PTO

• Fully stocked kitchen & we host lots of fun all-company events

• Boston Business Journal best place to work 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018