Java Engineer

Ideal candidates for this role learn and adapt quickly. You’ll combine state-of-the-art technologies with leading-edge algorithms to understand and tackle hard data security and data anonymisation problems.

Our Eng Culture:

As engineers at Privitar, we are excited and engaged with the problems we are working on. We work together in small teams in a supportive way, developing our skills, learning from each other, and building on each other's ideas. We take a deep pride in the products we build and care about writing clear, well-tested code.

We have a positive, constructive and proactive approach and enjoy working to design and architect solutions, choose technologies, and constantly improve how we work as a team. We are not afraid to question something that might seem obvious or to give it a go and learn how to do things better.

About you:

Less experienced candidates:

• Bachelor’s or higher degree in Computer Science or a Science or Engineering discipline. We can make exceptions to this for exceptional candidates.
• Experience of coding in Java. Or experience in a related language and evidence of commitment and ability to ramp up in Java.
• Demonstrable interest and knowledge of maths, big data, security or privacy.
• Excellent communication skills

More experienced candidates:

• The more Java experience the better.
• You are comfortable with being dropped into challenging technical problems and being given the responsibility to solve them.
• Experience building a software product, ideally over the full life cycle from design to production and ongoing support and enhancement.
• Experience of and commitment to automated testing.
• Ability to deliver results with rapidly evolving propositions, client demands and business needs.
• Knowledge of multiple programming languages

Desirable:

• Experience of multithreading or concurrent programming
• Experience building complex distributed systems
• Exposure to Big Data technologies, for example: Hadoop, Spark, Apache Nifi, MapReduce, HDFS, HBase, Hive, Cassandra.
• Understanding of software security and threat models, and experience building secure applications
• Experience with Amazon AWS and other cloud platforms