Cloud Backend Engineer

About Us

Be part of an exciting, well-funded startup changing the world of retail and beyond. RADAR’s mission is to revolutionize customer experience in retail through precise identification of inventory in the stores and distribution centers, completely transforming the in-store experience for employees and customers alike. RADAR's proprietary hardware and software platform combines RFID, Computer Vision and AI to provide hyper-precise, real-time location of every product and person in physical stores. This unprecedented capability enables some of the world’s top retailers to automate in-store inventory management, analytics, and checkout...and this is just the beginning of what we hope to accomplish together.

About the Job

We're seeking a Cloud Engineer to collaborate with on our Cloud Software project, presenting an exciting opportunity to develop innovative services. The ideal candidate will have a holistic perspective, capable of navigating the breadth of the product, delving into various topics, and injecting fresh ideas into different areas. As a Cloud Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in our rapid release cycles, necessitating hands-on development. This position requires a profound grasp of cloud-related technologies, management platforms, and networking.

The cloud team at RADAR is responsible for building the plumbing in the cloud infrastructure that makes the cloud services deployment simple and fast. It also includes aspects of large-scale system design, networking, security, configuration and automatic VM orchestration and many more areas.

Responsibilities:

• Design multiple layers of the application including devops cloud-native tooling, application and backing services.
• Write code for cloud related project duties, providing as-needed hands-on technical support.
• Develop reliable, readable and maintainable code and test cases.
• Make decisions on cloud platform characteristics, architecture and content.
• Jump into any and every area of work to help resolve issues.
• Manage your own project priorities, deadlines and deliverables.

About You

Required:

• You have a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or another technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• You have expertise in one or more software languages including Go, Python or Java.
• You have a minimum of 5+ years of relevant work experience; technically contributing to projects for core system design, REST, gRPC APIs, scale and performance tuning for cloud apps.
• You have previous experience writing software, designing APIs, adhering to the 12 factor app, database designs, logging patterns etc.
• You have a solid system architecture background, understanding design patterns, HA patterns, load balance and scale in building a SaaS platform which utilizes micro-services/distributed systems architecture.
• You are familiar with major cloud infrastructure providers such as AWS, GCP, Azure, cloud VM orchestration, and cloud networking rules.
• You have a deep understanding of message queues, pub/sub, database scaling, memory caches, and API gateways and writing software using these backend services.
• You understand the big picture and discern its high-level details.
• You have a "You build it - You deploy it - You own it and Shift-Left" mindset.
• You are able to easily grasp new cutting-edge technologies, as well as evaluate and test out alternatives.
• You can quickly read, understand and explain technical topics to the team as well as senior management.

Preferred:

• You have excellent analytical, problem-solving, organizational, communication and interpersonal skills.
• You have solid system design concepts, experience in production and large-scale deployments, tuning performance parameters for a very large scale.
• You have production expertise in any one of the modern stack Java, Kotlin or Go.
• You have an in-depth understanding of micro services architectures, technological familiarity with public/private/hybrid cloud, Openstack, GCE, Kubernetes, and AWS.
• You have experience building APIs/services:
• using MQ's - RabbitMQ, Kafka, NATS etc.
• using cache like Redis to improve the performance of the platform.
• that scales to millions of users in a cloud environment like private cloud, GCP, AWS, Azure, etc.
• You have built out solutions with interfaces to Vault and Consul for secret and configuration management.
• You have previous experience with network management systems and their FCAPS related aspects.
• You are familiar with networking, WIFI, RFID and other protocols.

Research has shown that women & underrepresented minorities are more likely to read lists of requirements and consider themselves unqualified if they don't meet every single one. This list represents what we're ideally looking for, but everyone has unique strengths & weaknesses, and we hire for strength & potential, not lack of weakness.

What We’re Looking For In Teammates

Technology like what we’re building doesn’t happen on its own. It is the result of a collaborative environment and the hard work of passionate, dedicated individuals working intelligently towards a common goal. We are looking for exceptional people to join our growing team and have a positive impact on our culture, technology, and product from day one. We deeply value humility, curiosity, and a positive attitude and you should as well. You should also believe that mutual respect is the foundation of any healthy and productive relationship. You should be unafraid to ask questions or challenge responses no matter how simple or complex. Most importantly, you should value honest and direct communication as you recognize that this is the best way for any individual or team to continuously learn and grow. Accomplishing our collective goals will be fun but it will also be hard; you should be in pursuit of an ongoing and rewarding challenge!

What It’s Like To Work With Us

We’re passionate about the technology we’ve created and what we’re building, but we know that changing any industry and creating a successful company will take balance, maturity, and a sustained effort. We’ve combined retail industry expertise, amazing engineers with experience shipping real-world hardware and software solutions, and a team of brilliant minds who are not afraid to focus on solving “impossible” problems. But this passion doesn’t mean we live unbalanced lives. We have families and passions outside of work, and we know that the best work comes from sharp, rested people. We respect each other and each of our contributions, and we believe that the best solutions will come from a diversity of ideas and perspectives.

Finally, we build our products with deep empathy for the people who will use them every day. Their input and insights are our clearest guide to building what they need; we respect our partners and clients, and listen closely to their feedback.