Senior Software Engineer

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A predominant information technology company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with strong Clojure or Ruby development skills to join their Chicago, IL-based Product Development team.

As a member of the Product Development team, you will play a critical role in the architecture, design, development, and deployment of web-based applications and services. You will be part of a high-visibility agile development team empowered to deliver high-quality, innovative, and market-leading voice-of-customer data acquisition and feedback intelligence solutions. If you thrive in a collaborative, fast-paced, get-it-done environment and want to be a part of one of Chicago’s most innovative companies, we want to speak with you!

Candidate must have:

• 5+ to 7 years of experience
• Minimum Education - Bachelor's Degree
• Full stack, full life-cycle experience building dynamic, high-volume web applications
• Comfortable in a thoughtful, agile environment with open code review, pairing, and retrospectives
• Experience with AWS stack, Elasticsearch, Storm, Redis, Sentry, Clojure
• Experience with Ruby on Rails development
• Comfortable using test-driven development (TDD) practices
• Experience delivering real-time, distributed systems in large scale production environments
• Experience with design and development of externally facing RESTful APIs
• Hands-on implementation experience with message-based (Rabbit
  
  MQ, 0MQ or similar) and asynchronous systems

The ideal candidate:

• Will take a lead role in the development of our consumer-facing web applications
• Will develop scalable data collection, storage, processing & distribution platforms & services
• Will participate in the architecture and design of mission-critical modules to support a next-generation VoC SaaS platform and associated APIs
• Will investigate, integrate, and deploy new and innovative open-source technologies and frameworks in coordination with enterprise architecture vision
• Will collaborate with all members of the technical staff to deliver best-in-class technology solutions