Senior Platform Software Engineer

VoiceBase is a rapidly growing, well-funded, startup in downtown San Francisco and an industry leader in speech analytics. Clients like Twilio, Nasdaq, and C-Span are already optimizing their sales through VoiceBase enabled, predictive insights. Business intelligence and analytics is going to be a 20 billion dollar industry by 2018 and is already one of the most profitable, fastest growing sectors of tech.

Software that scales under real-world conditions. You will be writing design for functional and technical specifications, designing components, identifying bottlenecks and providing solutions, breaking components and solving issues, troubleshooting for accuracy and performance, providing assistance to QA in designing tests, prototyping and selecting technologies, building SDKs for new clients, automating development tasks, operating in a fast-paced and highly agile environment, and working very independently while participating in every-other-day stand-ups. A veteran Java engineer who loves building scalable platforms used by tens of thousands of developers.

• Building distributed systems, working with micro services, and creating bulletproof software
• Writing clean, readable, functional code
• Picking frameworks and libraries that get the job done
• Working with peers who provide direct and open design feedback
• Getting your work in production and into customers' hands... every two weeks
• Skills & Requirements

• Common Java frameworks and libraries, such as the Spring stack
• Messaging queueing technologies, such as JMS or Kafka
• SQL (mySQL), noSQL (Mongo), and in-memory (Redis) data stores
• Micro-services and containers (Docker)
• Disciplined error handling and graceful degradation

If you have these skills, that's awesome, but not required:

• Real-time and near-real-time data processing such as Storm or Spark Streaming
• Machine learning or predictive analytics expertise