Senior Backend Engineer

Aera Technology is a pioneer in the growing category of Decision Intelligence – the technology to digitize, augment, and automate decision-making processes with AI and machine learning. Through our AI decision automation platform, Aera Decision Cloud™, we are helping the best-known brands in the world make smarter, faster decisions.

Privately-held and VC-funded, we have a global team of over 400 Aeranauts – and we’re growing. We deliver Decision Intelligence innovation and services that enable enterprises to automate and scale decision making with accuracy and speed. We continue to be the trusted choice of market leaders for our proven ability to generate value and unlock opportunities that were previously unattainable. 

The Senior Backend Engineer, as a technical lead in our global engineering organization, will mentor and lead talented local/remote teams, and collaborate with other teams as well.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code and automation
• Strong experience leading design and implementation of robust and highly scalable servicesDemonstrated ability to mentor engineers and lead projects
• Strong OOD and SOA principles, with the ability to implement them in JavaHas a passion to produce high quality deliverables while working with cross-functional teams
• Ability to handle a fast paced environment for iterative project turnarounds on mission critical systems
• Team/Leadership qualifications 
• Demonstrated ability or open to working with global teams across time zonesHas a passion to produce high quality deliverables 
• Participate in design and code reviews
• Maintain the CI/CD and improve release pipelineIdentify bottlenecks and bugs in applications, and devise solutions to ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications

About You

• 8+ yrs experience in Java, J2EE, Tomcat, multithreading and caching techniques
• 2+ yrs experience in Java 8 (Streams, Lambda)
• Experience with working on Spring/ORM, Microservice frameworks, Dockers, GIT, Gradle and Linux platforms
• Experience building secure, complex, and scalable APIs, from design through deployment
• Solid understanding of writing and delivering testable quality code, from the ground upExperience with SQL development, data modeling and complex data structures for high-volume and high-velocity data
• Experience in working with NOSQL technologies like REDIS, MongoDBSolid understanding and experience with OAuth, Logging and Security frameworks
• Hands-on experience with frameworks such as JUnit, TestNG, Mockito
• Hands-on experience with code quality frameworks/tools such as SonarQube, pmd, checkstyle etc.
• Strong educational background with Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or a related area

Nice to Have

• Experience with streaming data and complex event processing systemsWorking knowledge in AWS, Kafka, Apache Spark, Elasticsearch
• Python scripting is a plus

We are interested in considering every qualified candidate eligible to work in Mexico. 

If you share our passion for building a sustainable, intelligent, and efficient world, you’re in the right place. Established in 2017 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, we're a series C start-up, with teams in Mountain View, San Francisco (California), Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca (Romania), Paris (France), Munich (Germany), London (UK), Pune (India), and Sydney (Australia). So join us, and let’s build this!

Aera Technology is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Aera Technology will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. 

Benefits Summary 

At Aera Technology, we strive to support our Aeranauts and their loved ones through different stages of life with a variety of attractive benefits, and great perks. In addition to offering a competitive salary and company stock options, we have other great benefits available. You’ll find comprehensive Private Health Care options and well as a monthly home office reimbursement. We offer unlimited access to online professional courses for both professional and personal development, coupled with people manager development programs. We believe in a flexible working environment, to allow our Aeranauts to perform at their best, ensuring a healthy work-life balance.