Posted:
Mar 14, 2019

Senior Software Engineer - Back End (Akorda)

Job Title

Senior Software Engineer - Back End

Company

Akorda

Location

San Francisco, CA

Description

ABOUT YOU:

Are you passionate about microservices and cloud engineering? Do you want to expand your knowledge about continuous delivery in a evolving environment using tools like Docker and kubernetes? Are you a job engineer that is interested in expanding your Python skills?

Akorda is seeing an experienced Senior Software Engineer - Back End to fill out our technology team. You will join a group of technology veterans exploring new areas to apply Machine Learning and NLP to unstructured text content. You will be a leader in how these technologies shape knowledge work in the 21st century.

YOU WILL:

  • Work on our Cloud platform developing microservices that support end user and machine learning operations
  • Design and build customized, large-scale cloud-based systems for capturing end user interactions
  • Support of pre-production and production service applications at scale
  • Work in a startup environment where you may be asked to assist with tasks outside of your core job functions

YOU SHOULD HAVE:

  • A strong foundations in software development, design patterns, and cloud computing
  • Experience with large scale cloud/API services, distributed systems, databases
  • Experience building for and deploying to cloud environments, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, Jenkins
  • Expert software development skills with a focus on building in a microservice architecture
  • Excitement about taking ground-breaking technologies and techniques into the Legal Tech industry

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

At Akorda we consider every candidate on his or her individual merits. However, possession of the following skills and experiences are a baseline for consideration.

  • BS in Computer Science or related fields, or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of experience in large-scale software development
  • Technical development skills in Java, Python or other OO development languages

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

This is the wish-list. If you have any of these things, please call them out in your cover letter and resume so we can understand in detail.

  • Experience with Spring Framework
  • Experience with ElasticSearch, Solr or Lucene
  • Experience with Content Management Systems

How to Apply

Please submit a cover letter and resume directly to Sara Filipek at recruiting@akorda.com.

Type

Type
Career

Category

Category
Software Development
Type

Category

Category
Software Development
Last updated: September 11, 2020