Backend Engineer (Java/Spark)

Title: Backend Engineer

Location: Hybrid to the closest Capgemini office (Toronto)

Job Description:

Be a part of Capgemini’s team as a Backend Engineer (Java/Spark) and contribute by creating solutions for existing technical challenges with one of the world’s largest social media platforms!

Key Responsibilities:

• Obtains tasks from the project lead or Team Lead (TL), prepares functional and design specifications, approves them with all stakeholders.
• Ensures that assigned area/areas are delivered within set deadlines and required quality objectives. 
• Provides estimations, agrees task duration with the manager and contributes to project plan of assigned area. 
• Develops best practices for data coding to ensure consistency within the system
• Design, implement and maintain pipelines that produce business critical data reliably and efficiently using cloud technology
• Initiates and conducts code reviews, creates code standards, conventions, and guidelines
• Suggests technical and functional improvements to add value to the product
• Design and implement Fine Grained Access Control system for the client’s big data platform (Spark, Flink, Pytorch, Ray and other ML/AI frameworks)
• Improve and customize the internals of open-source Spark to meet our challenges at scale and actively participate in open-source community
• Build and scale big data processing frameworks and infrastructure to process petabytes-scale datasets

 Required Skills:

• 5+ Yrs. Experience as a Software Engineer
• 3+ Yrs. Experience building and supporting large scalable big data infrastructure/platforms
• Solid experience with Java
• Knowledge of big data technologies (e.g. Spark, Hadoop, Parquet/ORC, Flink)

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with AWS & K8S

Life at Capgemini

Capgemini supports all aspects of your well-being throughout the changing stages of your life and career. For eligible employees, we offer: 

• Collaborating with teams of creative, fun, and driven colleagues
• Flexible work options enabling time and location-based flexibility
• Company-provided home office equipment 
• Virtual collaboration and productivity tools to enable hybrid teams
• Comprehensive benefits program (Health, Welfare, Retirement and Paid time off) 
• Other perks and wellness benefits like discount programs, and gym/studio access.
• Paid Parental Leave and coaching, baby welcome gift, and family care/illness days
• Back-up childcare/elder care, childcare discounts, and subsidized virtual tutoring 
• Tuition assistance and weekly hot skill development opportunities
• Experiential, high-impact learning series events
• Access to mental health resources and mindfulness programs
• Access to join Capgemini Employee Resource Groups around communities of interest 

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.

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Disclaimer

Capgemini is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender identity/expression, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, genetics, veteran status, marital status or any other characteristic protected by law.

This is a general description of the Duties, Responsibilities and Qualifications required for this position. Physical, mental, sensory or environmental demands may be referenced in an attempt to communicate the manner in which this position traditionally is performed. Whenever necessary to provide individuals with disabilities an equal employment opportunity, Capgemini will consider reasonable accommodations that might involve varying job requirements and/or changing the way this job is performed, provided that such accommodations do not pose an undue hardship.

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