Backend Engineer

Company: Funded Club
Location: Reston
Posted on: October 8, 2021

Job Description:

Glue Up (formerly EventBank) is looking for a Back-End Engineer / Developer to join our growing technology team in the US.

As part of the technology team, you join a crew of experienced people working on making the best possible user experience and building the most scalable code base we could think of. Our stacks are Scala/Java for the backend; PHP/JS for the frontend; Kotlin and Swift for the mobile.

The ideal candidate should have experience as an Engineer or Developer in backend development, excellent communication skills, strong development ability, a sharp analytical sense, a startup mindset and should be able to roll up his/her sleeves to get the job done.

Join a fast-growing, international team (currently present in over 60+ countries and growing).

Job responsibilities

• Design, develop, document, support and enhance product under development.
• Assist in the design and implementation of scalable, extensible, and maintainable enterprise-grade systems
• Practice Agile methodologies such as test-driven development (Junit/phpunit), functional testing, and continuous integration.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of internet, enterprise, or distributed software development experience.
• Skilled in Java Platform Ecosystem, DBMS, RESTful style API design and Linux OS.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science and technologies or in a related field.
• Proficiency in: Data Structures and Algorithms, Object Oriented Design (OOD), Object Oriented Programming (OOP), Core Java Language, Concurrent Programming and Distributed Systems. 
• Local to Washington DC area is preferred.

Nice to have 

• Team leadership experience.
• Skilled in Scala programming language, Reactive programming, and Akka.
• Mastery of one or more MySQL Storage Engines.
• SaaS Development Experience.
• Platform Development Experience.
• Open Source Contributor.

Technology Stack

• PHP/JS framework for our web application;
• Sass for CSS processing;
• Native mobile apps (Swift and Kotlin);
• Java/Scala for our backend REST API;
• MySQL/MongoDB for data storage, Redis for some cache;
• Jenkins for continuous integration;
• AWS, AliCloud and Dataline for hosting.

About Glue Up

Founded in 2013, Glue Up, formerly EventBank, provides all-in-one engagement management cloud solutions that give professional communities the power to streamline operations, enrich audience engagement, and maximize value underpinning expansive networks. Our cutting-edge platform has helped hundreds of organizations in more than 50+ countries modernize processes and eliminate engagement challenges. Glue Up has offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, China, Malaysia, India, Indonesia, Philippines, USA, LATAM and Russia.

Job Type: Full-time

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Education:

• Bachelor's (Preferred)

Experience:

• Software development: 1 year (Preferred)
• Full-stack: 1 year (Preferred)

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