Lead Software Engineer

Job Description 

You will get to team up with incredibly talented and highly motivated engineers and architects innovating the next generation of Qualys Technology Platform processing over one hundred million transactions and terabytes of data per day. 

As a part of VMDR team, you will be working in a fast-paced environment prototyping, designing, developing, and supporting a highly scalable SaaS-based cloud security platform. 

We leverage open-source technologies to solve challenging problems aligned with the enterprise security business needs. 

You will be working on groundbreaking ideas and innovations which will be translated into products as features or new products themselves. 

Responsibilities 

• Research, prototype and develop solutions to innovate and improve Qualys’ technology platform. 

• Design and implement distributed, scalable, high-performance micro service-based applications. 

• Produce high-quality software with a scalable architecture and design principles. 

• Designing and implementing microservices which use the spring boot framework. 

• Working in compliance with the full Software Development Life Cycle. 

• Connecting microservices to interact with databases. 

• Understanding of how streaming technologies work such as Kafka. 

• Identifying and finding solutions to bugs. 

Requisite Qualifications 

• Excellent programming and designing skills with 8-12 years of hands-on experience in Java back-end development and skills with Spring-boot framework. 

• Good understanding of relational databases like Oracle and/or NoSQL DB. 

• Professional experience working on indexing technology like Elastic Search and caching technologies like Redis, Memcached, Hazelcast. 

• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms, application design and ability to apply Object Oriented principles like SOLID, DRY. 

• Real life experience with Continuous Delivery principles and related tools (Kubernetes, AKS, Docker) 

Desired Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science