Remote Staff Software Engineer

Description:

• Acquia empowers brands to create significant digital customer experiences using the Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) with open source Drupal at its core.
• The company is headquartered in the U.S. and is recognized as a market leader in the software industry.
• Acquia is a global company with employees in over 30 countries and is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join their team.
• The Staff Software Engineer will enhance and build robust software for customer engagement through the marketing cloud platform.
• Responsibilities include leading and mentoring the local team, collaborating with distributed agile team members, and building data pipelines, data stores, and applications.
• The role involves creating reusable and highly configurable metadata-driven solutions, automating testing and deployment in Snowflake across various cloud platforms, and writing clean, SOLID, and testable code.
• Participation in peer code reviews, designing modules using best practices, and taking complete ownership of the modules are also key responsibilities.
• The engineer will work on a fully cloud-based infrastructure, focusing on scalability and availability.

Requirements:

• Candidates must have 6-10 years of hands-on experience with Snowflake, SQL, data pipelines, data modeling, and query optimization.
• A minimum of 4-5 years of development experience with Java is required.
• Strong hands-on experience in building and operating distributed systems or service-oriented architectures is essential.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies, such as Scrum, and Test-Driven Development (TDD) is necessary.
• Candidates should have strong working experience with Git.
• A solid understanding of domain-driven design principles, clean code best practices, and SOLID principles is required.
• Strong knowledge of API design and REST fundamentals is essential.
• Candidates should be knowledgeable about software testing best practices, including unit testing, integration testing, and functional testing.
• Experience with big data analytics or real-time analytics solutions is preferred.
• Must be available during normal US EST business hours and for a minimum of 40 hours a week.

Benefits:

• Acquia offers a dynamic work environment with opportunities for professional growth and development.
• Employees are part of a global team that is building innovative solutions for the future.
• The company promotes a culture of mentorship and collaboration among team members.
• Acquia values diversity and provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants.