Senior Software Developer, Back-End Data Platform- (D469)

at  SMART Technologies

SMART is helping educators and businesses succeed all over the world. Our technology empowers teachers, students and teams to learn and collaborate in innovative ways, inspiring breakthroughs – from improved learning outcomes to moving businesses forward.
Work at SMART Technologies, and you can be part of a team that creates, and markets leading-edge hardware and software tools sold around the world. You can join the many skilled professionals who make SMART part of three million classrooms worldwide. Reporting to the Manager, Software development, you will be a member of a highly agile team tasked with developing new functionality, as well as maintaining and supporting the existing, publicly available product. This team builds and maintains a high-performance data analytics pipeline in Amazon Web Services. The ideal candidate must be self-directed and a fast learner, flexible enough to work on new technologies as well as legacy components.

SKILLS

• 5+ Experience with developing software using Agile software development
• 2+ years Building and deploying applications to AWS
• Strong foundations in computer science, in particular data structures, concurrent programming, distributed services, databases, etc.
• Experience working with Python for interaction with AWS services and data analysis (e.g. boto3, numpy, pandas, PySpark)
• Experience with AWS serverless architectures, such as Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, SNS, Step Functions, and Glue (Apache Spark) founded on infrastructure as code principles (Terraform)
• Understanding test-driven development practices including writing and maintaining unit tests
• Experience releasing software using a continuous deployment pipeline
• Ability to take initiative and propose solutions
• Enjoys working on a geographically distributed team
• Preferred experience developing/architecting highly available services
• Preferred experience working with data analytics in AWS, including Datalake, Lake Formation, Athena, AWS Redshift, Quicksight, etc)
• Preferred experience developing web services in Java
• Preferred degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field
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• Work closely with our frontend teams to build value driven features for educators
• Building, deploying and maintaining a data analytics pipeline in AWS
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Optimization of the services for maximum speed and scalability
• Implementation of security and data protection
• Design and implement new functionality in our web services
• Apply test-driven development practices including writing and maintaining unit tests
• Work closely with our test team to ensure automated testing has appropriate coverage
• Evaluate and choose new technologies and libraries to incorporate into our products
• Participation in the full Agile software lifecycle
• Write and maintain technical documentation
• Resolve outages, field escalations, troubleshoot and fix technical bugs
• Run performance benchmarking tests
• Other duties as required