Backend Software Developer (Austin, TX)
KNIME, United States
Job Description
We are looking for the right people to join our well-funded, growing open source startup and to help us to continue to build exciting technology that makes our users happy. Right now, we are looking for a Backend Developer to join our team in Austin, Texas.
What’s the job?
We are continually designing, building, and launching products and services in the cloud. This involves designing and developing microservices targeted for the Kubernetes platform. We are looking for someone eager to be a part of an innovative team. The ability to build flexible and scalable services is crucial as is a focus on scalability, reliability, and durability. You will work in a team focused on microservice development coordinating with multiple front-end, back-end, and operation teams on a daily basis.
The key parts of the job involve:
- Work successfully individually and within a team environment.
- Work within a Scrum team following a sprint cadence of development with a focus on building microservices using Java.
- Use your software engineering skills to tackle challenging technical issues with a focus on creating value for our customers.
- Collaborate with customer care teams on product issues. Help identify problems and possible solutions. Communicate with the customer care team on issues directly affecting customer satisfaction.
- Work respectfully. Within your team. With other KNIMErs. And with our customers and partners.
- Build products that our customers will love.
Who are you?
You are an experienced software developer who is looking for a new challenge. Ideally you have experience in several of the specialties listed below:
- A degree in computer science or a comparable major.
- 2+ years of experience implementing large scale applications using Java..
- High proficiency in Java which is our primary language of choice for back end development. Any product development experience in Golang or Python is a plus.
- Microservice development.
- Some exposure to at least one cloud platform such as AWS or Azure is a plus.
- Familiarity with relational databases and ORM technologies such as JPA and Hibernate.
- Have experience with software development tools such as JIRA, Jenkins, Git and Confluence.
- Passionate about writing clean, maintainable and scalable code and tests.
- Interested in learning and growing as a software professional.
- English fluency is required. German is a plus, but not required
About us
We are a rapidly growing, young company developing software for performing advanced data science. We are a highly interactive team and very enthusiastic about developing solutions for our users. Our open-source KNIME Analytics Platform, developed together with the community, is transforming the data science landscape. It is popular among its very active user community as well as among IT analysts. Our commercial KNIME Server enables enterprises to responsibly integrate advanced analytics into their operations. In this way, KNIME helps organizations nurture new user populations that want to exploit the benefits of data science and advanced analytics while remaining strongly committed to open source.
*Though we are happy to have applicants from further away, we’re not offering relocation benefits for this position.