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As Conviva is expanding, we are building products providing deep insights into end-user experience for our customers.

Platform and TLB Team

The vision for the TLB team is to build data processing software that works on terabytes of streaming data in real-time. Engineer the next-gen Spark-like system for in-memory computation of large time-series datasets – both Spark-like backend infra and library-based programming model. Build a horizontally and vertically scalable system that analyses trillions of events per day within sub-second latencies. Utilize the latest and greatest big data technologies to build solutions for use cases across multiple verticals. Lead technology innovation and advancement that will have a big business impact for years to come. Be part of a worldwide team building software using the latest technologies and the best of software development tools and processes.

What You’ll Do

This is an individual contributor position. Expectations will be on the below lines:

• Design, build and maintain the stream processing, and time-series analysis system which is at the heart of Conviva’s products
• Responsible for the architecture of the Conviva platform
• Build features, enhancements, new services, and bug fixing in Scala and Java on a Jenkins-based pipeline to be deployed as Docker containers on Kubernetes
• Own the entire lifecycle of your microservice including early specs, design, technology choice, development, unit-testing, integration-testing, documentation, deployment, troubleshooting, enhancements, etc.
• Lead a team to develop a feature or parts of a product
• Adhere to the Agile model of software development to plan, estimate, and ship per business priority

What you need to succeed

• 5+ years of work experience in software development of data processing products.
• Engineering degree in software or equivalent from a premier institute.
• Excellent knowledge of fundamentals of Computer Science like algorithms and data structures. Hands-on with functional programming and know-how of its concepts
• Excellent programming and debugging skills on the JVM. Proficient in writing code in Scala/Java/Rust/Haskell/Erlang that is reliable, maintainable, secure, and performant
• Experience with big data technologies like Spark, Flink, Kafka, Druid, HDFS, etc.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts and scalability challenges including multi-threading, concurrency, sharding, partitioning, etc.
• Experience/knowledge of Akka/Lagom framework and/or stream processing technologies like RxJava or Project Reactor will be a big plus. Knowledge of design patterns like event-streaming, CQRS and DDD to build large microservice architectures will be a big plus
• Excellent communication skills. Willingness to work under pressure. Hunger to learn and succeed. Comfortable with ambiguity. Comfortable with complexity

Underpinning the Conviva platform is a rich history of innovation. More than 60 patents represent award-winning technologies and standards, including first-of-its kind-innovations like time-state analytics and AI-automated data modeling, that surfaces actionable insights. By understanding real-world human experiences and having the ability to act within seconds of observation, our customers can solve business-critical issues and focus on growing their business ahead of the competition. Examples of the brands Conviva has helped fuel streaming growth for include: DAZN, Disney+, HBO, Hulu, NBCUniversal, Paramount+, Peacock, Sky, Sling TV, Univision and Warner Bros Discovery.  

Privately held, Conviva is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California with offices and people around the globe. For more information, visit us at www.conviva.com. Join us to help extend our leadership position in big data streaming analytics to new audiences and markets! 

Have you streamed a program on Disney+, watched your favorite binge-worthy series on Peacock or cheered your favorite team on during the World Cup from one of the 20 top streaming platforms around the globe? If the answer is yes, you’ve already benefitted from Conviva technology, helping the world’s leading streaming publishers deliver exceptional streaming experiences and grow their businesses. 

Conviva is the only global streaming analytics platform for big data that collects, standardizes, and puts trillions of cross-screen, streaming data points in context, in real time. The Conviva platform provides comprehensive, continuous, census-level measurement through real-time, server side sessionization at unprecedented scale. If this sounds important, it is! We measure a global footprint of more than 500 million unique viewers in 180 countries watching 220 billion streams per year across 3 billion applications streaming on devices. With Conviva, customers get a unique level of actionability and scale from continuous streaming measurement insights and benchmarking across every stream, every screen, every second.

As Conviva is expanding, we are building products providing deep insights into end user experience for our customers.

Platform and TLB Team

The vision for the TLB team is to build data processing software that works on terabytes of streaming data in real time. Engineer the next-gen Spark-like system for in-memory computation of large time-series dataset’s – both Spark-like backend infra and library based programming model. Build horizontally and vertically scalable system that analyses trillions of events per day within sub second latencies. Utilize the latest and greatest of big data technologies to build solutions for use-cases across multiple verticals. Lead technology innovation and advancement that will have big business impact for years to come. Be part of a worldwide team building software using the latest technologies and the best of software development tools and processes.

What You’ll Do

This is an individual contributor position. Expectations will be on the below lines:

• Design, build and maintain the stream processing, and time-series analysis system which is at the heart of Conviva's products
• Responsible for the architecture of the Conviva platform
• Build features, enhancements, new services, and bug fixing in Scala and Java on a Jenkins-based pipeline to be deployed as Docker containers on Kubernetes
• Own the entire lifecycle of your microservice including early specs, design, technology choice, development, unit-testing, integration-testing, documentation, deployment, troubleshooting, enhancements etc.
• Lead a team to develop a feature or parts of the product
• Adhere to the Agile model of software development to plan, estimate, and ship per business priority

What you need to succeed

• 9+ years of work experience in software development of data processing products.
• Engineering degree in software or equivalent from a premier institute.
• Excellent knowledge of fundamentals of Computer Science like algorithms and data structures. Hands-on with functional programming and know-how of its concepts
• Excellent programming and debugging skills on the JVM. Proficient in writing code in Scala/Java/Rust/Haskell/Erlang that is reliable, maintainable, secure, and performant
• Experience with big data technologies like Spark, Flink, Kafka, Druid, HDFS, etc.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts and scalability challenges including multi-threading, concurrency, sharding, partitioning, etc.
• Experience/knowledge of Akka/Lagom framework and/or stream processing technologies like RxJava or Project Reactor will be a big plus. Knowledge of design patterns like event-streaming, CQRS and DDD to build large microservice architectures will be a big plus
• Excellent communication skills. Willingness to work under pressure. Hunger to learn and succeed. Comfortable with ambiguity. Comfortable with complexity

Underpinning the Conviva platform is a rich history of innovation. More than 60 patents represent award-winning technologies and standards, including first-of-its kind-innovations like time-state analytics and AI-automated data modeling, that surfaces actionable insights. By understanding real-world human experiences and having the ability to act within seconds of observation, our customers can solve business-critical issues and focus on growing their businesses ahead of the competition. Examples of the brands Conviva has helped fuel streaming growth for include DAZN, Disney+, HBO, Hulu, NBCUniversal, Paramount+, Peacock, Sky, Sling TV, Univision, and Warner Bros Discovery.  

Privately held, Conviva is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California with offices and people around the globe. For more information, visit us at www.conviva.com. Join us to help extend our leadership position in big data streaming analytics to new audiences and markets! 

TeamExtn is looking for a passionate Senior Scala Engineer. It will be expected from you to build pragmatic solutions on mission-critical initiatives. If you know your stuff, see the beauty in code, have knowledge in depth and breadth, advocate best practices, and love to work with distributed systems, then this is an ideal position for you.

As a core member of our Special Projects team, you will work on various new projects in a startup-like environment. These projects may include such things as building new APIs (REST/GraphQL/gRPC) for new products, integrating new products with core Carvana services, building highly scalable back end processing systems in Scala and integrating with systems backed by Machine Learning. You will use cutting edge functional Scala libraries such as ZIO. You will have the opportunity to work closely with our Product, Experience and Software Engineering teams to deliver impact.

Responsibilities:

• Build highly scalable APIs and back end processing systems for new products
• Contribute in the full software development lifecycle from design and development to testing and operating in production
• Communicate effectively with engineers, product managers and data scientists
• Drive scalability and performance within our distributed AI platform
• Full software development lifecycle from design and development to testing and operating in production
• Communicate effectively with engineers, product managers and data scientists

Skills And Experience:

• 4+ years experience with Scala or other functional language
• Experience with Akka and Lightbend stack
• Expert with PostgreSQL, MySQL or MS SQL
• Experience in architecting, developing, deploying and operating large scale distributed systems and actor systems
• Experience with cloud APIs (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure)
• Messaging systems such as GCP Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, Kafka
• Strong foundation in algorithms and data structures and their real-world use cases.
• Solid understanding of computer systems and networks
• Production quality coding standards and patterns

BONUS SKILLS:

• Experience with functional programming in Scala
• Knowledge of ZIO and related ecosystem
• Experience with functional database libraries in Scala (Quill preferred)
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Our Interview Process:
Our interview involves 3 steps.

1. Code Evaluation - In this step we send you a simple assignment that you implement

2. First Technical Round - In this technical round we evaulate you on your skills, concepts and knowledge in Scala.

3. Second Technical Round - If the first round goes well we check how hands you are with Scala and have online problem solving session.

Our startup is building an AI based decentralized marketplace for the travel industry. Its founded by technologists, marketeers, and PhD/IITians from Google, Airbnb, Agoda etc.

We're looking to bring a Scala backend engineer with experience on reactive actor system using Akka/Akka-streams. The individual will be part of  our Europe based core team where individual team members have 20+ years experience each. Individual must've been hands on with scalable platform development and capable of individual contribution as well.

• Candidate Should have 5+ Years Of Experience in Core Java
• You will need strong development skills to work on and improve our Scala-based services, and be able to work together with senior teammates to create appropriate architectural design and ensure all aspects are appropriate to meet the business need.
• Excellent Functional Design and Functional Programming skills (more than 2 years of business experience in Scala and Java projects, respectively)
• Core skills in key supporting technologies and/or frameworks such as Play (AKKA) / Lagom
• Proven experience working in teams in the successful delivery of complex, performant and high quality products
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills
• Experience of SaaS (Software as a Service) environments
• Exposure to RESTful web APIs and a service oriented architecture
• Experience in Linux environments, Shell scripting etc
• Working with XML and JSON including parsing, asserting / matching and extracting
• Experience with Continuous Integration environments and build tools, including Terraform, Jenkins, Maven, Gradle and Ant
• Experience with messaging systems such as Apache Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon SQS and Rabbit MQ
• Experience working on Live platform SDKs such as Twilio, AWS Elemental

We are on a quest to find a Senior Software Developer - Scala with several years of experience who will help us in extending and maintaining our platform

 You will join a cross functional team with different nationalities, backgrounds and experience levels. The agile team is co-located including the Product Managers

You will collaborate with all team members in order to deliver the best solutions that enhance our platform

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4. We are investing in building our products using machine learning and NLP.
5. We work in latest technologies like AWS and Scala.

About the team:

Backend - Adis – PV is a scientific analysis platform being built for extracting content from scientific articles and providing meaningful insights

Insights are then published in a structured way, so that they can be made accessible to end users, via feeds delivery or through the platform

Backend - Adis – PV will be a production system for all databases under one IT landscape and under one umbrella.

Job Type: Permanent    
                                   

Job Location: Magarpatta City, Pune - India  (Work from home until further notice)

Years of Experience 6 to 10 years

What we are looking for

Educational Qualification:

B.Sc., BCA, BCS, B.E., B.Tech, M.Tech, MCA and M.Sc.

Skill Matrix:

Primary Language Skills: Java 8, Scala

Framework: Play Framework

Messaging: Rabbit MQ

Ideologies: TDD / ATDD, Pair Programming

Database: SQL and NoSQL

Challenges

• You will help us continuously improving our platform
• Together we will create best in class services that support the needs of our customers
• Taking part of team ceremonies like grooming, planning and retrospective
• Develop new features
• Improve code quality by doing pair programming or code reviews
• Continuously improve and monitor our product
  
  

Key Responsibilities

• Own and consistently deliver high quality end-to-end product features keeping in view technical & business expectations
• Add meaty features to the product which will deliver substantial business value
• Pioneer clean coding and continuous code refactoring
• Understands and appreciates existing design and architecture of the product
• Understands pros and cons of various technology options available
• Takes technical ownership of some of sub-systems of the product
• Makes changes in the product designs to achieve required business value / mileage
• Identify and addresses technical debts
• Understands technical vision and road-map of the product and expectations
• Understands purview of key pieces of deliverables and own few of these pieces

Day at work

• Pioneer proof of concepts of new technologies keeping in view product road-map and business priorities
• Self-study and share his / her learning within the team and across teams
• Provide required help to other team-members
• Pioneer in various team events and work towards objectives of these events
• Make meaningful suggestions to make ceremonies more effective
  
  

About You

• You have several years of experience with Software Development
• You have worked successfully with product teams in the past and ideally have some experience with mentoring junior developers
• You like working in a collaborative environment where there is collective ownership of the code
• You work in a Continuous Integration and always strive for Continuous Delivery
• You like to share and enable others to increase your whole team's performance

• Identify bad code practices in Scala and write new analyzers to detect them.
• Improve the coverage of automatically fixable issues.
• Ensure fewer false-positives are reported by the analyzer.
• Work on the internal tools that support analysis runtimes.
• Contribute to open-source static analysis tools.

We’re looking for someone who has:

• Strong foundational knowledge in Computer Science.
• At least 3 years of professional software development experience in Scala and Java.
• Understanding of the nuances of execution of the source code (AST, data flow graphs, etc).
• Familiarity with Scala best practices followed in the industry.
• Native experience with Linux/Unix environment.
• A focus on delivering high-quality code through strong testing practices.

Requirements:

• Academic degree (BE / MCA) with 3-10 years of experience in back-end Development.
• Strong knowledge of OOPS concepts, Analyzing, Designing, Development and Unit testing
• Scala technologies, AKKA, REST Webservices, SOAP, Jackson JSON API, JUnit, Mockito, Maven
• Hands-on experience with Play framework
• Familiarity with Microservice Architecture
• Experience working with Apache Tomcat server or TomEE
• Experience working with SQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra), writing custom queries, procedures, and designing schemas.
• Good to have front end experience (JavaScript, Angular JS/ React JS)