Software Engineer (Java)
At Featurespace you will be developing new features for the real-time platform which underpins our ARIC engine, integrating ARIC into customer deployments, and building new modules to plug in to our platform.
If you want to be part of the team that builds scalable distributed solutions to process hundreds of millions of events per day, Featurespace wants to hear from you.
Day to Day
- Working within a small team to design large-scale, real-time distributed architectures
- Delivering new features: from specification, through development, QA and into final deploy
- Providing input into future technology development
- Working with Data Science teams to ensure APIs are relevant and usable
- Supporting your code throughout its lifetime
- Building custom modules for client integration
About You
We're looking for people with a range of experience, including:
- Experience of designing and developing scalable distributed applications in Java
- Knowledge of patterns and their trade-offs in a distributed environment
- Experience of relational and/or NoSQL databases for large datasets
- Comfortable working with large codebases
- Ability to manage and prioritise your own workload
- External API integration
- Code profiling and performance tuning
- Cloud platforms and automation
- modern IDEs, source control and continuous integration systems
- Web services – HTTP API development
- Message queueing systems – RabbitMQ / ActiveMQ / Kafka
Personal Qualities
- Enjoys working in a team of like-minded and intelligent people to solve complex problems
- A focus on personal achievement and responsibilities
- A genuine interest in the relevant technologies and their applications
- A perfectionist who pays attention to grammatical detail, layout and presentation
- Enthusiasm and a can-do approach
And most importantly, a small-company attitude: willingness to adapt to a variable role, wearing many different hats from day to day.
Salary & Benefits
We believe in giving you the resources you need so that innovation can thrive.
In addition to competitive salaries, we offer:
- Quarterly bonus scheme
- Pension scheme
- 25 days’ annual leave
- Training and mentoring schemes
- Career growth opportunities
- Free Friday team lunches at our Cambridge, London & Atlanta offices
- Quarterly social, team building events
- Weekly lunchtime sports clubs
- Fridge packed full of edible treats and drinks for lunches and snacks
- Top notch coffee machines
- Strategy board game evenings
- Cycle to Work scheme