Senior Software Engineer (Big Data)

Senior Software Engineer (Big Data)

• Full-time

Company Description

Hi, we’re Nexthink. We’re not just the leader in the digital employee experience category, we invented the category. Our solutions combine real-time analytics, automation and employee feedback across all endpoints to help IT teams delight people at work. Our cloud-native platform pinpoints issues and solutions, automates response, and helps companies continuously improve their employees’ experience, making them more productive, efficient, and happy at work. We have millions of endpoints deployed, we’ve surpassed $100M in ARR, and we’ve recently secured $180M in Series D financing for a company valuation of $1.1B, but we’re just getting started.

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Job Description

We are looking for a skilled Senior Software Engineer (Big Data) with a strong desire to learn and innovate – you help challenge the status quo and you are very eager to develop new skills to help Nexthink stay on the leading edge of digital employee experience. The candidate should be heavily motivated by both the product and technology stack. This is a unique opportunity to design and build distributed systems at scale.

Nexthink’s mission is to delight people at work and your contributions will impact the work-life of millions of workers. As a Software Engineer at Nexthink, we expect you to ensure that the delivered software is of the highest quality, fulfilling both functional and non-functional requirements. You will participate in all stages of software development and collaborate with different teams.

You are highly motivated, result-driven, and detail-oriented. You have a high sense of product ownership, constantly learning and enhancing your computer science skills and understanding. You are familiar with the concepts and patterns described in the Reactive Manifesto, and terms such as CAP theorem, data models, data catalogs, parser generators, domain specific languages, model to model transformations sound familiar and interesting to you. You are pragmatic, open to feedback, accountable, and a team player. We look forward to meeting you!

Job Duties

• Design, implement, deliver and maintain systems that handle large volumes, variety and velocity of data
• Create and test data pipelines, data models, and data architectures
• Leading contributor to the overall product’s architecture and design (including storage strategies)
• Help improve the team development best practices
• Supporting and mentoring other team members
• Handle L3 support requests (together with the rest of the team)
• Participate actively in the technology roadmap
• Drives innovation in the own team and the whole Product Group, propose and contribute to valuable improvements
• Work with the agile iterative/incremental mindset and best practices and participate actively in the different ceremonials

Qualifications

• BSc in Computer Science (or equivalent), MSc preferred
• Strong Java development experience (experience with other languages a plus)
• Experience with Docker, Kafka, ClickHouse, Micronaut, AWS, and Data Dog is highly valuable
• Outstanding OO & Functional programming skills, data structures, algorithms & distributed computing know-how
• Experience with internal or external DSL's, meta-programming, model-to-model transformations in any system
• Experience with or training in compiler implementation
• Strong refactoring and test automation abilities
• Familiarity with Git, Gradle, Jenkins, and Sonar
• Experience with various query languages
• Mind-set oriented towards continuous improvement, lean thinking, and high-quality work
• Strong motivation for complex challenges and learning new technologies
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills, professional knowledge of English (spoken and written)

Valued optional experience

• Proven experience with data-intensive applications
• Business intelligence systems or data warehousing knowledge
• Experience with speaking at technical conferences is a plus

Additional Information

We are 1000+ employees strong in 21 countries across 8 different time zones speaking 60+ languages. We are positive, we get things done, we keep growing, and we are one team, we are Nexthink. We believe actions are stronger than words when it comes to diversity, inclusion, and equity in the workplace. Nexthinkers are multinational and multilingual, and come from all walks of life. We are committed to hiring a genuinely representative workforce that can create solutions and foster innovation for the modern digital employee experience.

If you are looking for a change and like a nice atmosphere, lots of challenges, and having fun while working, this is a great opportunity for you