Backend Engineer in Abu Dhabi at Group 42

As a Backend Engineer, the candidate will be part of our core engineering team who is building one of the largest Big Data analytics systems in the world. Writing code to process billions of data records daily from heterogeneous sources. A critical thinker, you will apply your software engineering skills to solve real-life Big Data problems. Responsibilities: - • You deploy ETL solutions to work on clusters with hundreds of nodes, storing petabytes of data. • You are a Team-Player, collaborating with Product Managers, Architects, and Software Engineers to research, design, and improve core Big Data analytics functionalities along with implementing features in the area of ingestion, enrichment, search, and analytics. • You participate in all phases of the development process - analysis, design, construction, testing, and implementation in Agile development lifecycles. • You are detailed, maintaining technical designs that account for security, resiliency, scalability, maintainability, and performance. • You are a promoter of best practices striving for continuous improvements of our processes, application designs, and application execution. • You favor automation over repetition. • You transform ambiguity into clarity. • You enjoy collaborating in a multicultural and diverse environment that expands to include various geographic locations. • You have stellar communication skills, effectively expressing yourself. You convey and receive information in a clear, credible, and consistent manner. Qualification and Experience • Bachelor's Degree or higher with a minimum of 7 years of experience working on Big Data technologies; Master's Degree and a minimum of 5 years of experience are preferred. • Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented software engineering best practices. • Extensive experience in JAVA and Spring. • Extensive experience designing and developing Microservices / Microservices architecture. • Experience with Neo4j, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL. • Experience with the TDD methodology and Java testing frameworks such as Junit and Mockito. • Experience with Big Data solutions such as Elastic, Hadoop, HBase, and Kafka. • Experience with Git as a version control system. • At least 5 years of working experience using an Agile, Scrum-based, development process. • Experience with a Cloud stack. • Telecom and/or government data management experience.