Senior Software Engineer, Mimecast

• Expert level in Java 8 or Open JDK 11 and runtime
• Experience working with open-source text extraction, file/mime-type detection and archive unpacking libraries such as Tika, POI, pdfbox or other similar open-source projects
• Experience in an Agile environment using approaches such as Scrum
• Deep knowledge and hands-on experience in scalability, reliability, performance, and optimisation of distributed services to run at scale
• Expert knowledge developing and debugging distributed applications in a *nix environment
• Solid experience troubleshooting applications in production
• Solid experience with concurrency, multithreading, server architectures, distributed systems and load balancing techniques
• Great written and verbal communication skills to tell us about the various challenges and problems you’ve faced and how you solved them throughout your career

Desirable

• A member of a friendly, inclusive and diverse team
• Focused on improving, maintaining, and scaling our bespoke text-extraction capabilities
• Keeping yourself and our text-extraction capabilities up-to-date with the latest improvements and innovations in the open-source text-extraction community
• An ambassador for the team, maintaining high standards and ensuring your solutions are scalable, secure and consistent in their design
• Building high-performance, massively scalable, always-available services
• Helping translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Collectively responsible for the performance and health of our services and platform, occasionally out of regular working hours, in an On Call rotation
• Promoting the use of working standards to achieve predictable delivery and maintain product quality
• Leading, encouraging and supporting others to find and engage with knowledge sharing and collaboration opportunities