Java Developer - learn data engineering with Apache Spark
Workstate, United States
Job Description
Workstate seeks developers with experience in Enterprise Java development with an interest in picking up data engineering with Apache Spark and Scala.
If your mission is to find a career that delivers collaborative teamwork, active learning and mentoring, and leaving a legacy of world-class results, you’ll fit right in at Workstate.
We are looking for consultants who can motivate, galvanize and engage with our clients beyond hands-on keyboard, both diving into the work at hand, while envisioning a project’s future. Our consultants are quick on their feet, able to make fast, informed and smart decisions to save or propel client’s projects, champion their vision, and persevere in their quest for excellence.
Our clients seek long-term relationships and value quality above all, and put trust in our people, our deep skills, our guidance and our ability to listen, strategize and activate their solutions.
While our Central Office is located in Columbus, OH across from the North Market and close to Short North and Downtown / Arena District, we have distributed teams in San Francisco, Seattle and LA. We connect across the miles over Team Brunch every Friday where we share what we've been working on throughout the week and discuss new technology, tools and techniques that excite us. (Currently, there also may be dogs, cats and children involved in these virtual brunches.)
This position is only available to U.S. residents based in the continental U.S. who are eligible to work for any employer without need for visa sponsorship or transfer.
Requirements
Required Experience
- Experience with Core Java
- Comfort in the terminal for multiple flavors of Unix and/or Linux
- Bash scripting experience
- Solid understanding and experience with common design patterns encountered in Java development
- Experience working with relational databases and SQL
- Experience with source control technologies, ideally Git
- Experience developing software in an agile environment with a robust SDLC
- Experience writing and maintaining Enterprise-grade software
Nice to Have Experience
- Public cloud experience (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Experience with Apache Spark, Kafka, Hadoop
- Scala or other functional programming experience
- Experience with NoSQL, like MongoDB, Cassandra, HBase, etc.
- Docker
- DevOps, CI/CD exposure
- Experience in Agile development environments
General Attributes
- Outstanding software development skills
- Adept in testing / debugging
- Demonstrates proficiency and willingness to communicate and represent Workstate across internal and external client teams, regardless of the individual’s understanding of technology
- An aptitude and desire to learn new technologies on the fly
We seek candidates who are life-long learners; in fact this is one the most important traits of a Workstate employee.
Want to move your application to the top of the pile?
Talk with us about your capabilities in delivering projects where you were challenged by new technologies, you dug in up to your elbows, and leveled up your knowledge to successfully achieve your goals.
Benefits
Workstate Benefits
We are committed to our team’s well-being above all things, and believe offering robust insurance coverage is one good way to show it. We emphasize home, family and personal time as essential to our employees’ balanced work/life fit.
At Workstate, we offer a choice of several Health Insurance plans (including an HSA plan) and Dental, Vision and free Life packages for our employees and their families, including domestic partners.
We offer highly competitive Paid Time Off, with new hires receiving 15 days off in their first year. Employees also receive an additional 9 holidays beyond PTO.
Workstate employees receive generous sick time and bereavement benefits, in addition to maternity/paternity leave for birth and adoptive families.
Who are you, Workstate?
Workstate is a technology consulting company, built by technologists, for technologists. Throughout our 20-year history we’ve been on a mission to create the best home for people who love to build. Who are we? We’re builders.
How we build.
At Workstate, building doesn’t just apply to technology.
We apply it to everything we do -- building relationships, skillsets, retirement accounts, technical knowledge, music collections, recipe files, dad joke collections, movie recommendations, travel logs, childhood toy recollections and more. So much more. We build to last.
But, the technology.
No matter what we’re building, the technology forms the backbone of all ou