Software Engineer

Summary

First Orion is a leading mobile and telecom network software vendor, and they are seeking a Software Engineer to develop and implement high-availability distributed services and microservices. The role involves creating web service endpoints, managing data storage and retrieval, and ensuring the performance and reliability of service architecture.

Responsibilities

• Develop Web Service endpoints, enabling secure and demonstrably performant data exchange with the rest of the middleware system in the cloud, on-premises as well as mobile devices in the field
• Develop parts of the solution responsible for storing and retrieving data from the various data stores, including service buses, distributed cache systems, and RDBMS and No-SQL databases
• Write software design specifications using modern design patterns
• Design, implement, and write test software for both the delivered solutions and the surrounding architecture
• Work on performance to ensure high scalability is achieved and required KPIs are met
• Develop solutions onto a cloud or an on-premises infrastructure working with Site Reliability Engineers
• Contribute to advancing reliability and performance of the Service Architecture, introduce new performance counters and instrumentation points, as well as work with Operations during the rest of the ALM

Skills

• Requires a bachelor's degree in a related area
• 1-3 years of experience in the field or in a related area
• Solid Java and C++ software design skills, backed by up-to 4 years of experience
• Experience developing software for Linux
• Thorough understanding of algorithms, data structures and software design fundamentals, including software design patterns and practices
• Knowledge of source control management with Git
• Knowledge of using the recent versions of one of the following RDBMs: MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle and/or Postgres in Java
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• The ability to work as part of a distributed team as well as work with multiple partners and vendors
• Ability to resolve difficult technical problems in test as well as production environments
• Prior experience in the mobile software industry
• Prior experience in telecommunication industry
• Development experience with high-performance low-latency fault-tolerant systems
• Fundamental knowledge of the TCP/IP stack and working experience delivering solutions using the newest versions of the HTTP protocol
• Knowledge of TLS/mTLS and/or oAuth2
• Knowledge of ProtoBuf and gRPC
• Knowledge of AWS based solution creation and related experience
• Kubernetes or Docker Deployment Experience
• NoSQL Database experience
• Experience using best practices for efficient and performant SQL code
• Working knowledge of Python
• Working knowledge of the Linux shell scripting
• Knowledge and experience with deploying solutions in AWS
• CI/CD knowledge

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Requires a bachelor's degree in a related area
• 1-3 years of experience in the field or in a related area
• Solid Java and C++ software design skills, backed by up-to 4 years of experience
• Experience developing software for Linux
• Thorough understanding of algorithms, data structures and software design fundamentals, including software design patterns and practices
• Knowledge of source control management with Git
• Knowledge of using the recent versions of one of the following RDBMs: MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle and/or Postgres in Java
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• The ability to work as part of a distributed team as well as work with multiple partners and vendors
• Ability to resolve difficult technical problems in test as well as production environments

Nice to Haves

• Prior experience in the mobile software industry
• Prior experience in telecommunication industry
• Development experience with high-performance low-latency fault-tolerant systems
• Fundamental knowledge of the TCP/IP stack and working experience delivering solutions using the newest versions of the HTTP protocol
• Knowledge of TLS/mTLS and/or oAuth2
• Knowledge of ProtoBuf and gRPC
• Knowledge of AWS based solution creation and related experience
• Kubernetes or Docker Deployment Experience
• NoSQL Database experience
• Experience using best practices for efficient and performant SQL code
• Working knowledge of Python
• Working knowledge of the Linux shell scripting
• Knowledge and experience with deploying solutions in AWS
• CI/CD knowledge

Benefits

• Open PTO
• Company paid holidays
• Flex Fridays
• Flexible work arrangements
• Generous health and dental/vision options
• Retirement plans
• Learning and development programs
• Career path frameworks
• Tuition reimbursement
• Company options
• Bonus potential