Senior Software Engineer

Company Description

About Mackenzie Search Group

Great talent is both rare and valued... the ability to recognize great talent is even more rare!

The Mackenzie Search Group knows how to position US & International companies for success, from Start-Up Ventures to Small & Medium size organizations to Multi-Divisional International Conglomerates, and builds companies with their most important asset - talent. With a strict focus in these niche areas: HealthCare (Executives, Physicians, Pharmacists, Nurses, Assisted Living, LTC, Therapy), Information Technology,Consulting, Homeland Security, Clean Technology, Energy, B2B, Manufacturing, Engineering, LifeSciences (Pharmaceutical, Scientific, Medical Device, Diagnostics, Biotech, Research, Lab), Six Sigma/Lean, Finance/Accounting, Sales, and Marketing, Consumer, Mobile Technology and Social Media.

Growing Strong Companies with the very best talent from the C-suite to the Field & on both the Business Operations & Manufacturing sides of an organization, is what Principals and Consultants at Mackenzie Search know best, are most passionate about, and have done since 1992. Just ask our Client references and LinkedIn recommendations, they can tell the story better than we can.

Job Description

A predominant information technology company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with strong Clojure or Ruby development skills to join their Chicago, IL based Product Development team!!

As a member of the Product Development team, you will play a critical role in the architecture, design, development, and deployment of web-based applications and services. You will be part of a high-visibility agile development team empowered to deliver high-quality, innovative, and market leading voice-of-customer data acquisition and feedback intelligence solutions. If you thrive in a collaborative, fast-paced, get-it-done environment and want to be a part of one of Chicago’s most innovative companies, we want to speak with you!

Qualifications

Candidate must have:

5+ to 7 years of experience

Minimum Education - Bachelor's Degree
Full stack, full life-cycle experience building dynamic, high-volume web applications
Comfortable in a thoughtful, agile environment with open code review, pairing, and retrospectives
Experience with AWS stack, Elasticsearch, Storm, Redis, Sentry, Clojure
Experience with Ruby on Rails development
Comfortable using test-driven development (TDD) practices
Experience delivering real-time, distributed systems in large scale production environments
Experience with design and development of externally facing RESTful APIs
Hands-on implementation experience with message-based (RabbitMQ, 0MQ or similar) and asynchronous

The Ideal Candidate:

Take a lead role in development of our consumer-facing web applications.
Development of scalable data collection, storage, processing & distribution platforms & services.
Architecture and design of mission critical modules to support a next-generation VoC SaaS platform and associated APIs.
Investigation, integration, and deployment of new and innovative open-source technologies and frameworks in coordination with enterprise architecture vision.
Collaboration with all members of the technical staff in the delivery of best-in-class technology solutions.

Additional Information

Salary 90++ D.O.E.