Backend Software Engineer

Backend Software Engineer

Location: Cupertino, CA

Duration: 12 months

Job Summary

Join the client News team and help us create a great user experience around news that delights millions of customers every day. As a backend engineer, you will be helping the team to build micro-services and improve the content ingestion pipeline

Description

We are looking for an engineer with experience building APIs for customer facing services and internal services. Capacity to work in an highly collaborative environment is required. The ideal candidate has experience with Java, breathes in Restful APIs and thrives on improving the design and architecture of a large system.

Key Qualifications

· Experience designing, implementing, and supporting Web services in Java and Spring

· Experience with NoSQL data stores such as Cassandra and Solr

· Experience with message or event driven architectures (such as RabbitMQ or Kafka)

· Strong analytical and problem solving skills

· Ability to thrive in a cross-functional team on high profile, critical projects

Education

BS or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering or any relevant domain.