Hiring - Big Data developer - San Francisco, CA

 Job Description 

Job Position: Big Data developer

Job Type: W2 Contract

Location: San Francisco, CA

Duration: 52 Weeks

Skills/Attributes: AWS, Azure, Big Data, Hadoop, Java, NoSQL, Scala, Spark

Job Description Summary
An ideal candidate is someone who works well with a cohesive team-oriented group of developers, who has a passion for developing great software, who enjoys solving problems in a challenging environment, and who has the desire to take their career to the next level. If any of these opportunities excite you, we would love to talk.

Responsibilities:
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve our software
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
• Ensure the final product is highly performant, responsive, and of the highest quality
• Actively participate in agile ceremonies including daily scrum, story pointing, story elaboration, and retrospectives

Qualifications:
• A seasoned Big Data developer either with cloud or on-prem distributions
• Proficiency in, at least, one modern programming language such as Java or Scala
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis.
• Extensive experience with Spark Processing engine.
• Relational Databases (e.g MySql, Postgres) as well as NoSQL experience 
• Good Handle on Big data tools / technologies/ Streaming (Hive, Impala, OOZIE, Airflow, NIFI, Kafka)
• Basic Shell scripting and knowledge of Linux/Unix systems
• Experience in designing & developing software at scale

Required technical skills:
Spark
Scala or Java
Working experience with any big data platforms (Azure, AWS, cloudera)
 
Desired/nice to have skills:
Hive, Airflow, Hadoop, NoSQL or Relational Databases