Staff Software Engineer (Java)

VON Consulting is an HR Consultancy company, providing solutions and services in the following areas: recruitment and executive search, personnel leasing, payroll, administration and training.

Basic Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent;
• 5-7+ years of relevant work experience;
• Strong skills in Java, including algorithm design, data structures, and design patterns;
• Strong understanding of data modeling and management techniques for “big data”, particularly with relational database technologies;
• Distributed software design;
• A proven ability to initiate and drive forward software development in an Agile development environment;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
• Critical thinking and the ability to structure elegant solutions to difficult problems;
• A passion for creating, reusing, and maintaining well-structured and architected solutions;
• The ability to deliver high-performance, customer-focused features;
• Experience in debugging and testing new software constructs as well as an ability to predict and prevent negative side effects when modifying existing or legacy code.



Preferred Qualifications:
• SQL database knowledge of Postgres and/or Vertica;
• Knowledge of TCP/IP networking protocols;
• Experience with NetFlow and SNMP;

• Strong understanding of storage, CPU, memory, networking, and acceleration technologies to support high-
performance application design;

• Experience with API creation and consumption via REST, event streaming, and message queues;
• Working knowledge of multiple data formats, including XML, JSON, and Protobuf;
• Working knowledge of streaming data/messaging pipelines such as Kafka and ZeroMQ;
• Multi-tier and cloud-native application architectures and what impacts their performance;
• Experience with OSI layer 7 protocols and their inner workings.

• Develop the next generation of the NetFlow capture and reporting platform targeting hyper-scale, high availability, datacenter, and cloud-native networking;
• Innovate, design, and implement solutions to highly complex problems to satisfy a broad range of customer needs;
• Take interest in learning the subject matter and use cases in order to make smart development decisions;
• Take ownership of features and take pride in your work, ensuring code is clean, correct, well tested, and meets the definition of done;
• Apply sound engineering principles for highly maintainable and testable software;
• Comment and document the “right” amount;
• Maintain a keen eye toward quality, efficiency, scalability, and time to market;
• Participate in the refinement, planning, and implementation of a continuously refreshed Agile backlog;
• Be a mentor and mentee among peers in a collaborative, constructive development environment;
• Actively contribute ideas for product and process improvements;
• Show a passion for continued learning. Stay abreast of new technology and trends;
• Work closely with the QA team to streamline functional software validation and incremental delivery.