Senior Software Engineer - APIs

Unacast is a provider of location intelligence and analytics focused on human mobility data. The Senior Software Engineer will develop and maintain customer-facing and internal APIs that query large datasets efficiently, collaborate with product and engineering teams, and oversee applications through their full life cycle.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with product development and other teams to translate business initiatives into concrete technical requirements
• Create innovative solutions to support partners and customers by building applications that deliver required functionality while adhering to best practices in development and testing. This includes the development of unit, integration, and runtime tests
• Work with the engineering team on the optimal design and maintenance of the large Snowflake data lake that powers the APIs. This includes database table design and efficient SQL querying to produce short API response times
• Create quality internal and external documentation for your work. Internal documentation is critical during the development and maintenance of a project and comprehensive external documentation is essential for customer onboarding
• Create data, metrics and visualizations, as needed, for complex algorithm verification and optimization

Requirements:

• This position requires significant prior Java development experience, including the Java Spring Framework. Experience with database management and SQL querying are critical as well as AWS experience
• You are both a team player and a self-starter. You are comfortable working independently with only basic guidance, as well as working well within the larger team
• You have demonstrated experience translating business problems into technology solutions, and deploying the right tool for the job including Scala, Java, third party web services, scripting languages (e.g. Python, R) and third party tool sets
• You are capable of taking a basic description of what is needed, analyzing it and asking the right questions to generate a detailed specification of the software requirements
• You can demonstrate that you have developed multiple applications from requirements elaboration to delivery to production
• You must have great organization skills and strong communication and documentation skills
• You must be able to demonstrate proficiency in leveraging Generative AI tools to accelerate code authorship, unit testing, and debugging, while maintaining strict adherence to security protocols and data privacy standards
• 5+ years' experience in Java 8 and higher software development with the Java Spring Framework used for REST APIs
• Demonstrate excellent SQL database skills ranging from database initial creation and design, table design, automated load and maintenance processes, and efficient querying. Snowflake SQL is strongly preferred
• Proficiency working in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and utilizing its many services. For example AWS Elastic Container Service for application deployment or AWS X-Ray for debugging
• Experience processing data efficiently in JSON and GeoJSON
• Proficiency in programming languages such Scala, Python or other similar programming languages
• Demonstrated ability to quickly and efficiently break down larger projects to smaller tasks, and handle multiple projects and tasks at the same time
• Experience in software or engineering projects from ideation, through development and into production
• Proficiency in Agile methodologies
• Strong communication skills and fluency in English
• This is a remote position that may require occasional travel
• Candidates must reside in the continental United States with a preference for individuals who live in the EST time zone and/or those residing in the following states: CT, CO, FL, GA, IL, IA, IN, MD, NC, NJ, NM, NY, PA, RI, SC, TX, VA, WV
• Experience with data analytics and data visualization
• You have experience working with geospatial data
• Snowflake SQL is strongly preferred
• individuals who live in the EST time zone
• those residing in the following states: CT, CO, FL, GA, IL, IA, IN, MD, NC, NJ, NM, NY, PA, RI, SC, TX, VA, WV