Position: Senior Backend Engineer (Java)
Company: Zoolatech
Category: Java
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

**Responsibilities**
Own and maintain data pipeline that extracts data from production SQL and noSQL data sources, perform necessary transformations, loads results into an analytics database (AWS Redshift), and delivers business analytics dashboards through Tableau Server
Optimize this pipeline for performance and capacity consumption, including but not limited to: query performance optimization, schema design, data transform design, etc.
Research and adopt alternative technologies throughout the ecosystem to keep up with product and performance requirements
Maintain and enhance existing reports and build new ones to reflect product functionality
Help the product team and customers analyze data to adjust product direction
Champion data-driven decision-making. Work closely with Product and Engineering to refine metrics-related requirements
Embed into feature teams to ensure measurability throughout the development lifecycle

**Skills Required**
About you:
• You’re obsessed with creating scalable applications using Java
• You take pride in the quality and thoughtfulness of your code, which is modular, flexible, well designed and documented
• Peer code reviews are your preferred way to collaborate and learn the system
• You proactively seek out and help to minimize pain points within Cyngn infrastructure and codebase
• You stay abreast of the latest technologies and share what you learn with others
• You are not afraid of failing while experimenting with different technologies, development methodologies, and tools
• You are fascinated by other cultures and interested in building strong relationships with team members across the globe

Key skills required:
5+ years of relevant experience
Experience developing using Agile methodologies
Experience in high-performance hyper-scale information systems in cloud environments
Track record of delivery of performance optimization at scale
Expert-level knowledge of business analytics systems and data engineering practices
Experience with a wide variety and categories of data sources for structured and unstructured data
Experience with a wide variety of data management systems, including queuing (such as Kafka), orchestration (such as Zookeeper), and higher-level analytics platforms such as Spark
Ability to align other disciplines on data-driven design
BS/MS CS or equivalent qualitative degree

• Excellent teamwork and communication
• Ability to gain alignment across cross-functional boundaries
• Ability to challenge the norm and maturity to advocate for changes for the greater benefit of the business
• Proven ability to take the product through all stages of development from concept to launch at scale
• Experience building autonomous vehicle technology is a plus
• BS/MS CS or equivalent qualitative degree