Backend Software Engineer - Big Data

About Privitar

Privitar is an enterprise software company headquartered in London, with a global client-base across North America, Europe and Asia.

Privitar is leading the development and adoption of privacy engineering technology enabling our customers to innovate and leverage data with an uncompromising approach to data privacy.

Privitar’s mission is to promote and facilitate the ethical and safe use of valuable data assets. Using leading privacy engineering techniques, we help companies get maximum value from data while preserving customer’s privacy.

Your qualification

• Bachelor’s or higher degree in Computer Science or a Science or Engineering discipline
• Strong experience in Java including experience of multithreading or concurrent programming
• Experience building complex distributed systems
• Experience building a software product, ideally over the full lifecycle from design to production and ongoing support and enhancement
• Strong experience of and commitment to automated testing
• Excellent communication skills (and the maturity to understand why this is vital)
• Ability to deliver results under pressure with rapidly evolving propositions, client demands and business needs

Will be a plus

• Experience with distributed algorithms and re-factoring algorithms for a distributed computing model
• Experience developing enterprise software products
• 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
• Knowledge of Python or another programming language
• Experience with Amazon AWS and other cloud platforms