Overview

For more than 20 years Global Relay has set the standard and trends in compliant communications with our multi-award winning unified communications, data capture, and data analysis platform. We securely capture and manage the world’s communications data and give its owners greater control and visibility to drive value and ensure compliance with the regulatory requirements of a large variety of industries and authorities.

We offer competitive compensation and benefits and all the other typical things you expect, but we are not your typical company. Global Relay is a career-making company. It is a place for big ideas, new challenges, and cutting-edge innovation. It is a place where you can make an impact.

Your Role:

The Senior Java Developer is a member of a small, highly focused team, responsible for building services for highly scalable and robust messaging, data acquisition and archiving systems, using leading edge technologies. This is an opportunity to work alongside some of the best Java developers in Vancouver and apply your craft in an environment that encourages creative thinking and autonomy. We encourage our developers to think beyond a single component to build complete system solutions. Challenge yourself by learning new technologies, and apply your skills across our different projects and application domains. If you are committed to code that is clean, well-tested, well-reviewed, performant and secure then you’ll fit in around here.

Tech Stack:

Micro-services Container Platforms (OpenShift, Kubernetes, CRC, Docker)
NoSQL DBs (Cassandra, MongoDB, HBase, Zookeeper, ArangoDB)
Serialization libraries (Thrift, Protocol Buffers)
Large scale data processing (Hadoop, Kafka)
Dependency injection frameworks (Guice, Spring)
Text search engines (Lucene, ElasticSearch)
Splunk/Elastic
CI/CD Build tools: Maven, Git, Jenkins
Frameworks:  Vert.x, Spring Boot

Your Job:

Design, implement and provide architectural guidance in deploying high data volume services as a part of an agile development team
Write unit and integration tests for your Java code
Collaborate with testers in development of functional test cases
Develop deployment systems for Java based systems
Collaborate with product owners on user story generation and refinement
Monitor and support the operation of production systems
Participate in knowledge sharing activities with colleagues
Pair programming and peer reviews

About You:

Minimum 8 years of Java development experience in an Agile environment, building scalable, multi-threaded applications and services
API development experience in service and resource-oriented architectures
Fluency with Linux
Passion for Test Driven Development
Understanding of network protocols such as HTTP, TLS, TCP
Experience with any of the following is an asset:High data volume distributed systems
Soft real-time systems
Experience doing performance tuning
Big Data technologies, such as Hadoop, Kafka, and Cassandra, to build applications that contain petabytes of data and process millions of transactions per day
Cloud computing, virtualization and containerization
Continuous integration systems
Deployment technology such as Ansible
Full text searching/indexing and tokenization
Lucene