Platform Engineer - Data Systems and Analytics

The Job and its Impact:

• You possess an appetite for problem-solving and critical thinking.
• Back-end development is an inherently collaborative task. It can be made very difficult if there isn’t clear and concise communication within a dev team. You are a great communicator and a great developer.
• You are always looking for new ways to be a better developer. You put an effort into learning and exploring the world of back-end development in your own time.
• The back-end development sphere is as changeable and unpredictable as any in tech. You are someone who achieves comfort in discomfort. You are aware of the tools and new technologies that are being introduced.
• Can effectively communicate project needs with both front and back-end teammates.
• High emotional intelligence: Self-aware and attuned to their peers’ needs.
• Be the best back-end developer by sheer discipline, motivation, and effort.
• You will collaborate with developers and product managers to identify unambiguous software requirements.
• Plan, develop, and execute strategies to get that software into customers’ hands in an efficient and high-quality manner.
• Guiding and supporting a team of quality analysts and engineers to deliver new functionality.
• Contribute to an integration automation framework that covers microservices, web portals, and native applications utilizing industry-leading BDD practices.

What we’re looking for?

• Minimum of 8 years of experience writing, testing, and debugging production quality code.
• Background in distributed systems, and large-scale data processing.
• Excellent design, development, and communication skills and Programming experience, ideally in Java, Spark, Kafka,
• or Python, and a willingness to learn new programming languages to meet goals and objectives.
• Knowledge of data cleaning, wrangling, visualization, and reporting, with an understanding of the best, most efficient use of associated tools and applications to complete these tasks.
• Experience with distributed databases; especially NoSQL.
• Ability to design solutions independently based on high-level architecture.
• B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical degree.
• Experience with two or more of the following:
  • Redis
  • MongoDB
  • Kafka
  • Redshift
  • Athena
  • BigQuery
  • ElasticSearch
• Experience with Agile methodologies is a plus (Scrum).
• Experience with Machine Learning and Statistical analysis is a plus.

What are the benefits

• You'll get to work in some of the hottest & fastest growing technologies in the USA right now.
• You'll get paid a competitive salary & be working directly with a super experienced team of people.
• You'll get a great place to come to work every day. Varied, complex, challenging & with a great culture that you can shape & change.
• And many more...

How to apply

Send your profile to careers@gaiansolutions.com

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About GAIAN

We are in the business of building, developing, operating & maintaining world class platforms serving Telco, Media and Hi Tech industries in USA, India and the Middle East. Our PaaS platform and its SaaS applications reach millions today.

Gaian is headquartered in Los Angeles, USA with satellite R&D centers in Hyderabad, India, and Shenzhen, China.

We are the:

• First to deploy an IPTV/OTT solution on cruise lines
• First to offer geo-targeted advertising on DVB-S2 in India
• India’s Emergency Alerting Platform for Ocean Weather with Autonomous TV Alerting services ∙ First to offer AI based placement opportunity detection in OTT live sports
• First to offer a full-service platform solution to ATSC 3.0
• Winners of the IBC 2019 Award for the Tsunami Alerting platform

The GAIAN business model has evolved along the course of its corporate journey. In the early days of inception, GAIAN offered outsourced product development and consulting services to US based organizations. Of noteworthy mention here are Cox Cable, Alcatel Lucent, Hot Wire Communications, World play, and Ericsson. Over the course of the last 5 years GAIAN has built up its own product stack.

Gaian is all about our people, our values and our way of doing things—intangibles that can't be measured or modeled in business terms but that truly make the difference. With over 150 experienced software architects, consultants, project managers, software, broadcast, and media engineers located worldwide our purpose is honored each time we exceed our client’s expectations, each time an employee reaches his/her goals, and each time we contribute to the society positively and make it a better place to live in.

We are looking to rapidly expand our technology & product development operations in India. And we need smart, ambitious people like you who enjoy a fun yet challenging work environment.

We strongly believe in Innovation, Perseverance, Compassion, Value Creation & Ownership!