Real-time Transaction Processing Engineer (closed)· San Jose, CA

Real-time Transaction Processing Engineer (closed)

San Jose, CA

$110,000 - $150,000 Base compensation

Recruiter Comment: HOT JOB

Job Description

Email Resume to Apply: JNorcross@VGPrecruit.com

About our Client

Our Client is the fastest growing provider of cloud-based fraud prevention solutions that do not

require personally identifiable information (PII). our Client helps companies accelerate ecommerce

by significantly reducing online fraud, acquiring customers faster, reducing

administrative costs, and increasing customer satisfaction. our Client has over 400 customers

in the eCommerce, Social Networking, and Financial Services markets.

About the Team

The our Client's engineering team is an international team that includes experts in device

identification, device intelligence, fraud detection, real time systems, Software as a Service

(SaaS) applications, machine learning, and data analytics. We are an Agile engineering team

using Agile concepts such as Scrum, Continuous Integration, self-organizing teams, and

continuous improvement.

About You

our Client is a mission critical part of online transactions. Consequently our Client must

respond to the question “is this a fraud” in less than a second. Additionally, our Client is

growing 3X every year. This requires a distributed scalable real-time fault-tolerant transaction

processing backend. We are looking for engineers who understand transaction processing in

real-time with fault tolerance. Collaboration is a key principle in the way we develop software.

Engineers that enjoy working with colleagues to solve difficult technical problems are a good fit

for us. We believe in the concept of Continuous Improvement at the team and individual level.

Engineers that are interested in personal and technical growth will feel at home on our team.

Key Objectives

 Increase the scalability and reliability of our real-time transaction processing system

 Increase the breadth of our fraud detection platform through feature enhancements

 Increase the overall effectiveness of the Engineering team through personal contribution to

the Continuous Improvement effort

Specific Responsibilities

 Design, implement, and test specific features as directed by our Client's Product

Management team

 Improve reliability and scalability of our product through architectural improvements and

refactoring

 Maintain, refactor, and extend existing code base while minimizing disruption to existing

installed customer base.

 Work in cross-functional teams in an Agile/Scrum environment to produce features that

pass acceptance criteria

 Conduct and participate in code reviews

 Participate in an Agile/Scrum team including iteration planning, story and task estimation,

daily stand-up meetings, and iteration retrospectives

Personal Skills

 Follows engineering best practices including such things as internal code documentation,

coding standards, unit testing, test driven development, and code reviews

 Proactively communicates a global perspective on problems and issues

 Strong verbal and written communication skills

 Works with a sense of urgency by responding quickly to requests from peers and

management and quickly identifying blocking problems

 Seeks responsibility and takes initiative

 Develops software using abstraction methodologies

 Meets deadlines and commitments

 Provides a transparent view of work-in-progress to peers and management

 Develops good working relationships with work colleagues and management

 Organized, methodical, and detail oriented

 Ability to work with multi-cultural and geographically dispersed teams

 Committed to the success of their team and their company

 High emotional intelligence

 Capable of working on more than one project simultaneously

 Ability to work alone and in small teams

Technical Skills

 Complete command of C/C++

 Competent in multi-threaded environment and can produce thread safe code

 Capable of trouble shooting in a real-time distributed environment

 Can develop real-time systems and software

 Experienced with revision control/content management systems (CVS, subversion, etc.)

 Conversant in modern software development skills and terminology (e.g., design patterns,

unit testing, code reviews, continuous integration, etc.)

 Aversion to technical and code debt

Required Experience

 Five or more years’ experience with C/C++ for real time, embedded, or transaction systems

 Five or more years’ experience with Unix/Linux

 Five or more years’ experience with object-oriented development

 Experienced with developing a real-time transaction processing system

 Must have been significantly involved in the development of at least two successfully

completed products

 Must hold a Bachelor’s degree (or better) in computer science, electrical engineering,

mechanical engineering, mathematics, physics or similar fields

Desired Experience

 Fraud detection or security systems

 Networking experience and TCP/IP related protocols

 SaaS architecture, clustering architectures and distributed computing

 Realtime systems handling large volumes of data

Compensation

 $110,000 to $150,000 depending on experience level

 Stock Options