At Phunware, we’re obsessed with creating category-defining mobile experiences for the world’s most respected brands. From designing and building the perfect app, to launching it in the wild and building an audience to engage and monetize with meaningfully, we’ve got everything Fortune 5000 businesses need for total mobile app lifecycle management. We’re growing fast (and have the awards to prove it), so we’re looking for the best and brightest to help us pioneer what’s next in this exciting space between the physical and virtual worlds.
Job Summary:
Phunware is seeking a BigData engineer in Newport Beach, CA with hands-on experience creating, deploying and optimizing large-scale data systems.
The ideal candidate will bring strong technical experience with Big Data systems/technologies and have a strong track record of deployment, maintenance and optimization of production code.
Responsibilities:
- Create robust, high-volume production systems/architectures, and develop prototypes quickly
- Work with development teams to design maintenance and support strategies
- Create optimized workflows using relevant technologies (Hadoop, Spark, Elastic Search, Kafka)
- Create architectural workflows, diagrams and specification documents to help define platform features/functionality.
- Perform experiments and analyze results to improve the performance and quality of algorithms
- Work with product management and executive stakeholders to take detailed requirements and implement them using Agile Test Driven techniques
- Work in an organized team oriented environment with shared responsibilities
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science or Computer Engineering; Master’s Degree preferred
- Previous experience in BigData technologies; deployed in production environment
- Experience in building highly scalable, available and responsive systems using open source software tools and technologies
- 5-10 years of professional software development
- 5-8 years strong Java development experience
- Experience with REST API frameworks,
- Strong SQL skills
- 2+ years of professional software development experience with some of the big data technologies including: Spark, Storm, Map Reduce, Hive, HBase, Hadoop, Kafka, Impala, Cassandra
- Experience in Elastic Search - highly desirable
- Experience with one or more of the following will be an added advantage: statistical analysis, machine learning, natural language processing, predictive modeling
- Domain experience in one or more of the following:
- Designing/developing large scale web analytics
- Designing/developing scalable analytics for mobile analytics
- Delivering data systems that demonstrably impact corporate bottom line
- Developing large scale / low latency scoring systems
- Developing extensible mining model deployment infrastructure
- Data modeling and logical modeling large scale / high impact data warehouses
- Responsible, organized and hard working with excellent communication skills
- Must be living in the Newport Beach, CA area or be able to immediately relocate
Standing Out:
- NoSQL or similar DB design/implementation experience with large number of records (i.e. 1 Billion+)
- Experience with information retrieval, network programming and/or developing large software systems
- Experience with cloud delivery platforms, ideally Amazon
- Experience doing Test Driven Development (TDD), Continuous Integration (CI) and test automation.
- Open source software contributions
- Track record of success in a start-up or high-growth environment
Compensation and Benefits:
- Fun, casual, fast-paced work environment filled with talented colleagues
- Competitive salary
- Pre-IPO stock options - including “early exercise” provision
- Flexible paid time off
- Full range of benefits, including 401(k) and medical, dental and vision coverage