Clojure Developer

Job Title: Clojure DeveloperLocation: Remote RoleDuration: Long-term Contract

Job DescriptionRequired Skills:Clojure, ClojureScript, Redis, Kafka, PostgreSQL, HashiCorp stack (Nomad, Consul, Vault, Terraform), AWS, ELK, Telegraf, GrafanaRequirements:• Creation, management and operation of a diverse set of microservices and micro applications.• Define common frameworks and software libraries, in various programming languages, that support the creation of efficient, scalable and highly available microservice-based architectures.• Support with the management of the running system architecture. You will troubleshoot issues and identify areas for continuous improvement with a particular emphasis on quality, performance and security.• Work closely with architects and technical product managers and other members of your team to translate overall system architecture and product requirements into well-designed, implemented and tested software solutions.• Work in an Agile environment to deliver high-quality software in an incremental manner.• Help promote the adoption of best-in-class software engineering practices, frameworks, and tools. You are providing guidance and feedback to other software developers.Experience:• B.Sc. in Computer Science or related Engineering is required, a Master’s degree is desirable• 8+ years of proven, hands-on track-record as a software engineer, focused on cloud-based systems• Mastery of programming languages – Clojure, but knowledge of Golang or JavaScript (NodeJS) Java, Python, are desirable.• Proven track record developing cloud-based services (SaaS) and platforms (PaaS)• Proven hands-on in-depth experience of AWS is required, both in terms of traditional technologies (e.g. EC2, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, …) as well as more recent cutting-edge paradigms (e.g. Lambda, API Gateway, Fargate, …).• Proven experience of developing microservices and complex microservice-based platform architectures• Excellent understanding of distributed systems, designing for scalability, performance and availability• Experience of establishing non-functional best-practices and deploying supporting technologies for improving platform security (including audit) and reliability (latency, availability, scalability)• Knowledge of distributed network architectures and network security is required• Good knowledge of data persistence technologies including relational databases and no-SQL solutions• Excellent interpersonal and technical communication with peers, and non-peers alike, with a can-do attitude• 3+ years in teams applying modern agile software development practices #LI-FM

Key Skills

• SQL
• Microservices