Your future position
Engineering crews in Maritime Applications are responsible for scaling our MarineTraffic platform, which provides real-time and historical data on ship movements around the world. Leveraging a network of Automatic Identification System (AIS) receivers located primarily along coastlines, it tracks the positions of ships, offering a broad view of marine traffic globally. We are seeking an experienced Backend focused engineer to take ownership of major parts of our platform and improve them to accommodate our growth.
In this team, your mission is to:
- Work in project teams to grow the existing products and support the latest features that we have in development
- Contribute your insights across the team to help us re-architect existing systems for scale and extensibility
- Test your code to assure quality of new and existing functionality.
- Experiment with new frameworks and technologies and learn continuously
- Maintain visibility, monitoring and alerting mechanisms to guarantee SLAs and SLOs
It will be a match if you:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent field.
- Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience in Python, Java, Nodejs, Go or PHP software development
- Excellent command of written and spoken English
- Proficiency in building and consuming RESTful APIs
- Proficiency in Unit Testing
- Knowledge of relational database systems (MSSQL, PostgreSQL)
- Familiarity with CI/CD concepts, GitLab pipelines, quality monitoring tools such as SonarQube etc
- Proven experience with Git, Docker
- Familiar with Clean code, SOLID principles and software design patterns
It will be even better if you have:
- Some knowledge with PHP and frameworks such as CakePHP, Symfony, Laravel.
- Knowledge of non-relational database systems (e.g. Redis)
- Experience with other technologies like Python and/or Typescript
- Familiarity with event streaming technologies like Kafka and MQTT
- Experience working with a Cloud environment such as AWS or GCP
- Familiarity with K8s and AWS EKS
