You will be a part of our Grid Software Engineering team, an Agile organization with a flexible working environment, where we are always looking to innovate our products and the processes and technologies we use. Our current focus is on leveraging our long history of Geospatial experience and expertise building client-server products, and evolving those products and tech stacks to modern cloud-based mapping and analytics micro-services. We are seeking to hire people who are passionate about technology, enjoy solving challenging problems and value the positive impact it makes to our customers. We are looking to grow our current team to meet these customer needs and will use your technical expertise and problem-solving abilities to innovate complex solutions.
As a Software Engineer with a focus on building a backend data product, you will work closely with your product development peers in fast-paced Agile development teams building efficient APIs using the latest software development technologies and infrastructure.Job Description
Roles and Responsibilities
In this role, you will:
- Design, develop, and maintain backend systems and services using Java, Spring Boot, and PostgreSQL within a microservices architecture to deliver cloud-based geospatial enterprise products.
- Design RESTful and GraphQL APIs to build scalable high-performance services.
- Optimize database queries and ensure data integrity and consistency in PostgreSQL.
- Develop geospatial data and queries using PostGIS in PostgreSQL.
- Build scalable and highly available distributed systems.
- Engage in technical discussions, participate in technical designs and present technical ideas through white boarding (or online equivalent).
- Evaluate technology options to meet business needs and make appropriate trade-offs.
- Maintain code quality through best practices, unit testing and code quality automation.
- Understand the whole product, its modules and the interrelationships between them while being an expert in the assigned component or module.
- Be an expert in assessing application performance and optimizing/improving it through design and best coding practices.
- Be an expert in core data structures as well as algorithms and have the ability to implement them using language of choice.
- Use excellent communication skills to work collaboratively and effectively with global teams in an Agile setting.
- Write clear, structured documentation for designs, ensuring developers and stakeholders can easily understand and maintain the codebase, along with product documentation to support end user integration.
- Evangelise how our technology solves customer problems from a technology and business perspective.
Education Qualification
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or in “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).
Strong professional experience.
Desired Characteristics
- Strong experience in using back-end technologies such as Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, Kafka, MinIO, and Infinispan.
- Strong experience with PostgreSQL, including performance optimization, query tuning, and schema design in a microservice environment.
- Familiarity with PostGIS for working with geospatial data in PostgreSQL.
- Experience building distributed systems including on security, analytics, throttling, caching, and logging.
- Experience designing and building performant RESTful or GraphQL APIs which serve large volumes of data
- Experience designing and developing scalable enterprise software services and components using microservices, with a focus on handling large data volumes including both relational and NoSQL databases.
- Familiarity with geospatial data ingestion and management at scale (or similar connected network paradigm).
- Experience using server-side monitoring and observability technologies such as Grafana, Kibana, Kiali, and Jaeger.
- Experience in containerization and orchestration using Docker, Helm and Kubernetes.
- Experience with Security frameworks (e.g., JWT, OATH2)
- Strong knowledge of Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, Software Design Patterns and Java coding principles.
- Experience in API documentation, for example using Swagger with REST API and GraphQL schema documentation
We value building teams diverse in thought and experiences. If you like what you’ve read and are excited by this opportunity, but don’t meet all the requirements, we encourage you to make the jump and apply anyway.
Additional InformationRelocation Assistance Provided: No
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What We Do
GE Vernova is a planned purpose-built company on a mission to electrify the planet while simultaneously working to decarbonize it.
If we want our energy future to be different…we must be different.
Our mission is embedded in our name. We retain our treasured legacy, “GE,” in our name as an enduring and hard-earned badge of quality and ingenuity. “Ver” / “verde” signal Earth’s verdant and lush ecosystems. “Nova,” from the Latin “novus,” nods to a new, innovative era of lower carbon energy that GE Vernova will help deliver.
GE Vernova brings together GE’s portfolio of energy businesses including Power, Wind, Electrification and Digital businesses. With focus, GE Vernova is accelerating the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy, while helping our customers power economies and deliver the electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life.
Together, we have The Energy to Change the World.
Why Work With Us
Join our team, to evolve and grow, surrounded by some of the brightest minds in the industry who help you get better every day. You’ll get the chance to rewrite the rules, work on cutting-edge technology, and be part of a global team for positive change.
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