Java Developer

About you 

You are driven to solve tough problems with technology. Let’s take pricing for example. Imagine a world where each product in e-commerce were to be priced differently for each customer based on where they are located, how much they buy or where they prepay or pay-later. This leads to a massive optimization problem because pricing too low incurs opportunity cost while pricing too high means a competitor takes that business. This is just one example of how B2B and B2C e-commerce are different and why B2B offers the opportunity to innovate. Now couple this with routing for a sales agent. How should pricing work with a sales-person’s CRM app? Depending on how far you take it, it is a massive machine learning problem. 

If you’re passionate about technology and its applications to business problems, you’re curious and imagine what a new world can look like, love working with global colleagues on global problems and don’t mind taking risks that move the needle and treat failure merely as an opportunity to improve and iterate, you’d be a good fit at Ula.

We are very ownership driven at Ula. We also believe in proactive mentorship. It’s an opportunity to learn and to mentor. Below is what we expect from you.

Responsibilities

• Work with the Product and UX functions to craft innovative solutions to solve real customer pain points.

• Work with Engineering and DevOps functions to ensure system reliability, availability and scalability.

• Continuously champion high quality software engineering practices - from planning, implementation, test automation, documentation, code reviews, scaling, performance, metrics, logging, and monitoring - essentially the entire software development lifecycle.

• Evaluate existing and future cloud-based services to increase the efficiency of our team and/or business.

• In a start-up environment, you’ll be expected to be flexible to work across the stack from the middleware to the backend business logic to the persistence layer and the network layer.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in building scalable web applications.

• Proficient in any of the major programming or scripting languages (C++, Java, Python, NodeJS, Golang, Scala etc).

• Possess an extremely sound understanding of basic areas of Computer Science such as Algorithms, Data Structures, Object Oriented Design, Databases.

• Experience in requirement analysis, failure analysis, API design, distributed consistency.

• Experience in defining processes and building systems to monitor and gather metrics, analysis, and software profiling.

• Experience with microservices and web application/services development.

• Great problem solving skills and propensity to learn and experience of leading end-to-end high scale projects and mentor fellow engineers.

• Excel at working in small, dynamic, and fast-paced groups.

• Willingness to own all stages of development process: requirements, design, implementation, testing, and operational support

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent coding skills in a language such as Java or NodeJS or Golang.

• Experience with MySQL and/or PostgreSQL & with non-relational databases such as DynamoDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, etc.

• Experience in working with distributed caching (memcached, Redis, or comparable technology).

• Experience with agile software development processes for building highly available and scalable distributed systems and/or e-commerce platforms.

• Ability to troubleshoot complex systems problems, debug, and find root causes.

• Ability to effectively articulate and drive solutions to meet technical and business challenges

• Ability to deal well with ambiguous/undefined problems; ability to think abstractly

• Good experience of AWS services such as EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, Lambda, API Gateway, ECR, ECS etc.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.