Our client has developed the most scalable and powerful chat API in the world. Their engineering team is solving some of the biggest challenges related to building reliable, feature-rich, and scalable real-time conversational experiences across different platforms.

Location: San Mateo, CA

You will be participating in building the best real-time conversational products and solutions possible.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Build a large scale distributed and scalable real-time messaging service
Design simple, intuitive API to solve complex architectural problems
Write customer-centric documentation on API and messaging services
Architect and build efficient servers on our globally distributed infrastructure
Deploy and operate server clusters within a cloud environment

Key Qualifications:

Working knowledge of Python or Java
2+ years of experience developing, shipping, and maintaining real-time systems is ideal but not a must
Understanding of multi-threading and high performance distributed architecture
Able to work independently and drive results
Ability to find the root cause of problems with a minimal set of information and data points
Ability to find the optimal solution given resource constraints; understands under-engineering and over-engineering concepts

Bonus Points:

Experience working on real-time chat/messaging system
Experience handling massive concurrent connections and processing large-scale traffic
Understanding of Unix/Linux systems
Understanding of Python, Java, and Event-Driven Frameworks
Understanding of TCP/IP and network programming
Understanding of RDBMS, NoSQL and distributed databases
Understanding of server virtualization, global infrastructures, load balancing, and handling massive data traffic
Awards from programming competitions (e.g., ACM ICPC, IOI, etc.)

For more info, please contact jennifer@intelletec.com

Senior Software Engineer