Product Engineer

JavaScript Jedi, Mark Up Master… VedaPointe seeks a passionate Full Stack developer with a strong knowledge of user interface development practices and a proven ability to integrate with complex back-end systems. You must possess a passion for the web and for creating exceptional user experiences in various digital media – such as web and mobile, as well as deliver front-end components for complex web development efforts.

You create error-free code from content in various digital formats, deliver real-time posting requests, bring architect and designer vision for our products to life, love raw code and can work independently or with a team.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain web applications that scale infinitely in the cloud.
• Implement efficient code that consumes massive data sets and presents our end customers with elegant ways of understanding information.
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
• Be the bridge between our data and and analytics teams, and our end customers, that truly tells a visually compelling story about the information we provide.
• Work with stakeholders including the Executive, Development, and Advanced Analytics teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs.
• Work with data and analytics experts to strive for greater functionality in our applications.

Qualifications

• Always be hungry to learn and innovate with new technologies and techniques to build the very best of commercial software in the world.
• Advanced technical aptitude with modern web application frameworks and experience working against relational databases and big data/NoSQL structures are required.
• Experience in consuming streaming/real-time data and visualizing in a web application framework.
• Experience in creating API/abstraction layers for both public/private consumption.
• Experience performing root cause analysis on applications and processes to answer diagnose and remediate issues.
• Commercial web application development is a plus.
• Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable ‘big data’ data stores.
• Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment.
• 2+ years of experience in a UX Developer role, who has attained a degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems or another quantitative field.
• Vue and node.js are preferred, but other modern web application frameworks are appreciated.
• Big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc.
• Relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres and Cassandra.
• AWS/Azure/GCP cloud services to deploy large scale web applications.
• Stream-processing systems: Storm, Spark-Streaming, etc.
• Object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala, etc. is a plus.