Architect/Senior Engineer - WorldWide Traffic Queue/Throttling at Grassroots Technologies, Inc

We are looking for a solid foundation of technology understanding and work/school experience; we are also equally interested in promising communication skills, and the growth potential of any candidate.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Information Systems/
• 7+ years of experience in software development.
• Experience building and running distributed systems.
• Experience with AWS Lambda, Cloudflare Workers, Google Cloud Functions, or a similar distributed computing platform.
• Experience with CDNs, especially Akamai and Cloudflare.
• 3+ years of experience writing JavaScript, or the ability to quickly learn it.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Additional Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Golang

Description

GRT is carefully searching for new Systems/DevOps candidates for a high profile, global commerce engagement. GRT Software Engineers to help with a holiday traffic throttling project. Walmart sites experience enormous load during November sales events and other special events. Our team is building a distributed queue using edge computing to try to handle this load better. Help us design, build, test, and scale this unique system that will have a huge impact on Walmart's future business.

GRT’s search for this new person is focused with all of our past success factors in mind. We are looking for a solid foundation of technology understanding and work/school experience; we are also equally interested in promising communication skills, and growth potential of any candidate.

Areas of Responsibility:

• Involved in planning of system and development deployment as well as responsible for meeting software compliance standards
• Drives technical vision and influences product roadmap and vision
• Implement large-scale, complex, cross-functional projects
• Leads the discovery phase of large projects to develop high level design
• Supervise the work of cross-functional groups of engineers, including offshore associates
• Directs root cause analysis of critical business and production issues
• Documents testing and maintenance of application corrections and improvements
• Influence decisions, builds consensus, and resolves conflicts constructively and proactively
• Supports business objectives and ensures the business needs are being met