Sr. Software Engineer

Job Description

As a member of one of our Technology teams, you will contribute to building solutions that use natural language processing, cognitive computing, and artificial intelligence applications or the frameworks and infrastructure that support them.
Interactions Virtual Assistant India LLP, a recently established subsidiary of Interactions LLC is seeking Senior Software Engineer. You will play a key role in designing and implementing components and features of the Core platform projects.

The Sr. Software Engineer works in close collaboration with QA, DevOps, Product Owners, Professional Services, and in some cases third party software vendors and Customers/Prospects.

Job Functions:
• Contribute to the creation of a massively scalable, highly available SaaS platform.
• Design and develop high-volume, high-performance, high-availability, concurrent applications using proven frameworks and technologies.
• Responsible for troubleshooting and fixing issues.
• Effectively communicate within and outside the team.
• Bring new technical ideas, in keeping with latest industry trends, to fruition by prototyping and then incorporating it into the Core Platform.
• Work on an agile team to deliver high quality software on time, providing progress updates and reporting any issues or technical difficulties.

Required Skills:
• Minimum Six (6) or more years' experience in Core Java Programming /Designing.
• Must be experienced in Hands-On Coding/Programming experience in Java Backend Technologies in Multi-Threading Concepts .
• Minimum 5+ years of experience building applications in Node.
• Experience with Node/JS ecosystem; Typescript experience preferred
• Proficiency designing and creating web APIs using REST, gRPC, and other API standards.
• Experience with highly concurrent system architectures - multi-threading, multi-processing, and async IO.
• Minimum of three years working on asynchronous messaging based technologies and distributed systems.
• Minimum of three (3) years working on mission critical, 24x7, high performance and scalable systems.
• Minimum of three(3) years working with relational databases and other persistence technologies.
• Experience working with all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle – ranging from architecture and design to implementation and testing.
• Experience in writing design documentation, coding, and writing unit and integration tests.
• Prior experience with architecture and design of components and features that are part of large enterprise architectures.
• Enjoys coding and solving challenging and complex technical problems.
• Must have strong testing, debugging and problem solving skills.
• Good written/verbal communication skills and excellent collaboration skills.
• Proactive, independent problem solver; addresses complex challenges with both focus and curiosity.

Desired Skills (Nice To Have):
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or similar field.
• Prior experience with NLP/voice technologies.
• Prior experience with AI and machine learning technologies just as tensorflow, pytorch, and scikit-learn.
• Experience in Python
• Experience building real-time conversational systems leveraging SIP, webRTC, websockets, or XMPP
• Experience with profiling and troubleshooting large scale, concurrent and multi-threaded JVM based languages (Java)
• Experience with asynchronous, event driven architectures