Sr Software Engineer Job in New York 10001, New York US
Sr Software Engineer Position Open in New York, NY
About Patch
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Role: Senior Software Engineer
Performs design, development, testing, documentation, and analysis of software applications. Assignments include development of new programs and sub-programs, as well as enhancements, modifications, and corrections to existing software. Duties include designing applications, writing code, completing programming, developing and executing testing and debugging routines, and documenting work and results.
Responsibilities
• Help build an open source data management platform
• Design, develop, troubleshoot, debug and implement software for a component of the system
• Own full life cycle development for a component of the system.
• Develop reusable tools for the management and manipulation of big data
• Develop automated tests to ensure new functionality will work today and tomorrow
• Utilize test-driven development practices.
• Work to improve data hygiene through automated cleansing techniques
• Exemplify good coding practices, always keeping data integrity as a top-level goal
• Document code and data handling processes as appropriate
• Provide feedback in code review sessions
• Effectively communicates technical aspects of the job to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Qualifications - Knowledge, Experience, Skills
The education level, previous experience, specific knowledge, skills and abilities required to meet the minimum entry-level requirements (not necessarily the incumbent’s experience or education level) for this position. This may include special skills, statutes or regulations, and department procedures.
Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
Experience: 4 to 6 years of directly related experience
Specialized Knowledge: Ab Initio would be nice
Skills:
• Extensive experience working with large data stores
• Experience with Hadoop, NoSQL products (especially key value stores) highly desirable
• Expert knowledge developing and debugging in C/C++/Python/Ruby/PHP/Java on *nix
• Experience with file systems, concurrency, multi-threading, server architectures, and distributed systems
• Expert knowledge of databases... Vertica/Netezza/MySQL/etc ...
• Scripting experience with Perl, for example
• Expert hands-on advanced SQL experience
• Standard data warehousing approaches (star schema, ETL)
• Experience with Agile software development.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Patch offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including 401(k) match and performance bonus. Patch Media, part of the Huffington Post Media Group, is an AOL company.
