Senior Java Developer (Engage team)

It’s not everyday that you consider starting a new career. We’re RingCentral, and we’re happy that someone as talented as you is considering this role. First, a little about us, we’re the $2 billion global leader in cloud-based communications and collaboration software. We are fundamentally changing the nature of human interaction—giving people the freedom to connect powerfully and personally from anywhere, at any time, on any device. 

This is where you and your skills come in. We’re currently looking for: Senior Backend Engineer that will work on a variety of exciting projects with responsibility for designing and delivering secure, distributed, scalable and fault tolerant services, end-user applications and APIs. In this role, you will have an opportunity to use your engineering expertise & leadership in the delivery of cloud-hosted (AWS) SaaS systems. You will work on complex, event driven services adhering to agile engineering practices and processes with a strong focus on automation.

You should be motivated, organized, excited about technology and SaaS products, a thorough critical thinker, and relentless when it comes to code quality, scalability, latency, and platform stability. Our culture is motivational, constructive, and positive. We value teamwork, camaraderie, and collaboration. If you’re up for a fun challenge, we want to hear from you!

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with architects and other stakeholders on polishing requirements, suggest technical solutions, and provide feasible estimates.

• Transfer requirements into implementation that is focused on efficiency and quality.

• Be an owner of solutions implemented, actively support them from the proof of concept through production deployment.

• Focus not only on development but on running software in production. Be proactive in defining monitoring/alerting specifications, enhancing observability and traceability of all production flows.

• Provide mentorship to junior team members, become a center of competence on every part of the product you contribute to.

• Participate in code reviews and other efforts to maximize quality of Engage products.

• Be ready to provide technical assistance and guidance to service engineering teams that answer customer requests.

• Work in a distributed team spanning across multiple time zones.

Qualifications & Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field or equivalent, is required.

• 5+ years in an engineering software development role building backend services and APIs.

• Proven track record in delivery of event-driven, highly available, scalable, resilient enterprise grade commercial cloud services.

• Proficiency in developing Java applications. Advanced knowledge of Java Core, Collections, Multithreading & Java Memory Model, Garbage collection.

• Deep understanding of micro services architecture paradigm, event driven system design, distributed systems, eventual consistency principles.

• Experience developing REST services: REST manifesto, stateful/stateless services, load balancing strategies.

• Strong RDBMS skills: writing advanced queries, designing table structure / indexes / triggers, query optimization / query plan analysis.

• Hands on experience deploying applications using Kubernetes.

• Experience working with Kafka or other messaging queues.

Nice to have:

• Experience with Contact Center solutions is a plus.

• Experience with AWS-native technologies (S3, DynamoDB, Athena, EC2) is a plus.

• Experience with data streams processing technologies and frameworks (Apache Flink, Apache Spark) is a plus.

What we offer:  

• Well-coordinated professional team.

• Cutting edge technologies, interesting and challenging tasks, dynamic project, great opportunities for self-realization, professional and career growth.

• Additional Health and Life Insurance Package.

• Employee Assistance Program.

• 25 vacation days.

RingCentral’s Engineering team works on high-complexity projects that set the standard for performance and reliability at massive scale. What kind of scale? Millions of users today and hundreds of millions tomorrow. This is  your chance to help imagine, develop and deliver products that raise the technological bar, and power human connections. If you’re a talented, ambitious, creative thinker, RingCentral is the perfect environment to join a world class team and bring your ideas to life. 

RingCentral’s work culture is the backbone of our success. And don’t just take our word for it: we are recognized as a Best Place to Work by Glassdoor, the Top Work Culture by Comparably and hold local BPTW awards in every major location. Bottom line: We are committed to hiring and retaining great people because we know you power our success. RingCentral offers on-site, remote and hybrid work options optimized for the ways we work and live now.

About RingCentral

RingCentral, Inc. (NYSE: RNG) is a leading provider of business cloud communications and contact center solutions based on its powerful Message Video Phone™  (MVP™) global platform. More flexible and cost effective than legacy on-premises PBX and video conferencing systems that it replaces, RingCentral® empowers modern mobile and distributed workforces to communicate, collaborate, and connect via any mode, any device, and any location. RingCentral is headquartered in Belmont, California, and has offices around the world.

RingCentral is an equal opportunity employer that truly values diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.