Senior Java Engineer in Constanţa

AWS (nice to have) Docker (nice to have) Scala (nice to have) Kafka (junior) Architecture (regular) Java (advanced) About UsAt Zyte, we eat data for breakfast and you can eat your breakfast anywhere and work for Zyte. Founded in 2010, we are a globally distributed team of over 200 Zytans working from over 28 countries who are on a mission to enable our customers to extract the data they need to continue to innovate and grow their businesses. We believe that all businesses deserve a smooth pathway to dataFor more than a decade, Zyte has led the way in building powerful, easy-to-use tools to collect, format, and deliver web data, quickly, dependably, and at scale. And today, the data we extract helps thousands of organizations make smarter business decisions, secure competitive advantage, and drive sustainable growth. Today, over 2,000 companies and 1 million developers rely on our tools and services to get the data they need from the web.About the JobThe new SaaS will include our recently released Automatic Extraction which provides an API for automated e-commerce and article extraction from web pages using Machine Learning. Automatic Extraction is a distributed application written in Java, Scala and Python; components communicate via Apache Kafka and HTTP, and orchestrated using Kubernetes.As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be designing and implementing distributed systems: large-scale web crawling platform, integrating Deep Learning based web data extraction components, working on queue algorithms, large datasets, creating a development platform for other company departments, etc. - this is going to be a challenging journey for any backend engineer!Roles & Responsibilities:Work on the core platform: develop and troubleshoot Kafka-based distributed application, write and change components implemented in Java, Scala and Python.Work on new features, including design and implementation. You should be able to own and be responsible for the complete lifecycle of your features and code.Solve distributed systems problems, such as scalability, transparency, failure handling, security, multi-tenancyRequirements3+ years of experience building large scale data processing systems or high load servicesStrong background in algorithms and data structures.Strong track record in at least two of these technologies: Java, Scala, Python, C++. 3+ years of experience with at least one of them.Experience working with Linux and Docker.Good communication skills in English.Computer Science or other engineering degree.Bonus points for:Kubernetes experienceApache Kafka experienceExperience building event-driven architecturesUnderstanding of web browser internalsGood knowledge of at least one RDBMS.Knowledge of today’s cloud provider offerings: GCP, Amazon AWS, etc.Web data extraction experience: web crawling, web scraping.Experience with web data processing tasks: finding similar items, mining data streams, link analysis, etc.History of open source contributionsBenefitsAs a new Zytan, you will:Become part of a self-motivated, progressive, multi-cultural team.Have the freedom and flexibility to work from where you do your best work.Attend conferences and meet with team members from across the globe.Work with cutting-edge open source technologies and tools.35 days paid holidays