Job Description
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
