Leading Federal Government Agency is looking for a Senior Backend Developer with strong Java and Scala  skills, along with skills in processing big datasets

This role can be performed in either Sydney or Melbourne and offers a hybrid work environment, with 2 days/week in the office. 

As a Senior Backend Software Engineer, you will have experience in overseeing software development projects, writing optimised code, and provide technical leadership to a team of software engineers.

Some of your Duties & Responsibilities:

• Deliver high quality pipeline and API code aligned to approved designs and industry best practice implementations
• Technical release co-ordination, within the team for weekly releases, and to all clients for cutover releases
• Proactive management of potential API outages to internal and external clients
• Perform other tasks as required by the team to meet business objectives.

You will bring to the role:

Security Clearance required: Australian Citizen with NV1, or at least a Baseline Security Clearance with the ability to obtain NV1.

• Excellent development skills in Java and Scala, specifically building and performance tuning applications to processing big datasets (> 3TB) in parallel.
• Commercial experience with Apache Spark, Kafka and the Elastic stack (Kibana, Logstash, Elasticsearch)
• Ability to work with business analysts and testers to define feature files (which explain data processing logic).
• Ability to write complex applications that use data from both SQL and NoSQL data stores.
• Experience in choosing & writing efficient processing algorithms.
• Previous experience with containerisation and associated tools (including Rancher, Kubernetes)
• An understanding of continuous delivery techniques and tools (including Jenkins).
• Experience with automated testing frameworks.

If you have the right skills and experience please apply now through the job board to Marilyn Lennon

Balance Recruitment is committed to equal opportunity employment.  We celebrate diversity and encourage people from all sections of the community to apply for this role.