Senior Server SW Engineer/Performance Consultant

Basic QUALIFICATIONS:
- 6-8+ years preferred work experience as a seasoned Server Software Engineer.
- Passion and desire to architect and deliver infrastructure services for mobile applications.

Scope of Responsibilities/Expectations:
Responsibility for all aspects of design and implementation with a strong emphasis on architecture and leveraging the latest open source technologies. Data analysis to ensure high performing systems serving high volume applications are running smooth. Develop and support a performance/stress environment and tools to support failure analysis, and support high-quality releases to production with rigorous stress environment tooling. This individual will be interfacing with cloud service engineering, Quality Assurance, Operations, and other development teams. We are looking for a great server software engineer that can wear a system admin hat. We want to build a flexible service for stress and performance with amazing tools that allow engineers to pinpoint performance issues fast.

Specific Knowledge/Skills:
- At least 6-8 years of experience in software development as a Server Engineer.
- Must have:
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Results oriented, product focused.
- Team player, values the project, company and co-workers. High energy and passion towards integrating new features.
- Experience developing service oriented architectures (SOA).
- BSCS is required.
- Experience with in high-performance, high scalability distributed programming.
- Expert in multi-threading and concurrency concepts.
- Expert in Java for service development but uses languages as a tool. The ideal candidate should be able to switch from (as an example) Bash Shell Scripting to Java to Python with relative ease.
- Good understanding of network protocols, especially TCP/IP and HTTP
- Good understanding of database design and SQL.

Nice to have:
- Experience with the following products and technologies: Linux, Apache, Jetty or Tomcat, MySQL, Java.
- Familiar with web Front End technologies like Apache Axis, JQuery and Dojo or proprietary web service implementations.
- Experience with large data management systems like Cassandra, Hadoop, Lucene and web 2.0 technologies a plus

SKILLS
- BSCS

Synectics is an Equal Opportunity Employer.