One of our direct client is urgently looking for a Back-End Engineer @ Sunnyvale CA

TITLE:Back-End Engineer
LOCATION:Sunnyvale CA
Duration: 6 to 12+ Months 

Description:

Your main goals are to:

- Power Walmart inventory system, handling billions of events daily.
- Maximize on-site availability while minimizing reject rates due to lack of inventory.
- Give more insight to our marketing and operations teams via more historical data and improved analytics.
- Unify inventory management responsibilities currently spread across multiple systems and teams.
- Debug production issues with other teams across services and multiple levels of the stack.


Requirements:

- Top-notch programming skills, with an interest in functional programming languages.
- Solid Coding skills in Java/J2EE technologies with Spring Boot experience
- Solid understanding of designing, developing and supporting large scale, cloud based distributed systems.
- Experience with REST based API Development
- SOA Architecture experience is needed to develop scalable APIs
- Exposure to event based and asynchronous processing.
- Strong operational excellence and testing skills.
- Someone who values automation. We don’t like solving the same problem manually over and over.
- Experience working with distributed databases (Cosmos/Cassanda/etc)

Nice to Have:

- Fluent in a few programming languages, functional, dynamic and static.
- Solid understanding of how to use data structures to solve problems optimally.
- Good understanding of event-driven systems.
- Experience with Apache Kafka or similar streaming platform.
- Understands DevOps: how to support large scale distributed systems, how to prioritize and escalate issues.