Back-end Developer

About this company

HomeStory is a digital & virtual real estate company for matching consumers with agents and lending solutions best suited for their home-buying needs. They work with the best brokerages and agents in the country to provide the highest-quality service for clients looking to buy or sell homes. By building Big Data applications, offering support and direct communication with clients, partners, and brokers, HomeStory is becoming a leader in the real estate market in the US.

Selection process 

• Fat Cat introductory call (HR Screening): 30 minutes

• Client-side HR Interview: 1h

• Client-side Technical Interview: 2-3h

Position details 

The Senior Back-end Developer would work on a variety of products, including real estate marketplaces for the US market, portals for lead management, and various services and infrastructure maintenance (IAC). The candidate will have the chance to work with a variety of technologies and work their way up within the company.

Project details 

The newly hired Back-end developer will get familiar with HomeStory's complete data pipeline, which will give them the opportunity to work on a partner-related product, as well as internal projects. They will be in touch with everything that revolves around using the company’s data.

Key responsibilities

• Taking high-level product requirements and working with the team to refine and implement them in a solution while maintaining standards

• Improving current standards and taking a feature, set of features, or product from concept to release 

Requirements 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field

• 10+ years of experience with Java or Scala

• 1+ year of experience with Python

• Experience with the following technologies is also required 

• AWS, in particular, Serverless (Cloudformation, Cloudwatch, EC2, Lambda, RDS, Dynamo, S3, Glue, Athena, EMR, CDK)

• Apache Hadoop, Apache Lucene, Apache Cassandra, Apache Spark

• Postgres

• General Data Pipelines or Web Service

• Strong computer science background in algorithms, data structures, and software design

•  Focus on efficiency, user experience, and process improvement

• Excellent project and time management skills

•  Strong problem solving and verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to work independently or with a group

Nice to have skills and experiences

• Code Pipeline

• Model-Based Testing

• Airflow

Team

The team currently consists of five members - all of them Medior seniority developers. They use the Kanban working methodology. It is possible to progress to several new technologies that the candidate can work with, as well as to advance to higher leadership positions.

Working conditions 

• Open to flexible working hours. General working hours are from 11 AM - 7 PM, 12 AM - 8 PM. Most teams have autonomy in defining this more 

• Fully remote work 

• 25 vacation days

• Covered sick leave: 30 days

• Predefined equipment (monitors, headphones, chairs)

Benefits

• Team budget

• English lessons

• Private health insurance

• Utility compensation for working from home

• Monthly gift packs