Grid Dynamics is a leading provider of scalable eCommerce platform solutions. Our clients are some of the largest and fastest growing eCommerce organizations in the industry, such as eBay and Macy's. We offer technology solutions for next-generation eCommerce systems, particularly in the areas of core transaction processing, product search engines, personalization platforms, continuous delivery and private clouds. We have been named "Cool Vendor of Infrastructure Services" by Gartner, a "Promising Start-up" by Harvard Business School Alumni Association of Norther California, one of "Top Cloud Computing Players" by Cloud Computing Journal, a "Start-up to Watch" by Microsoft, and featured as a case study in the "World Economic Forum Report on Global Entrepreneurship" presented at Davos, Switzerland by Stanford University.    

Grid Dynamics team in St-Petersburg is continuously looking for bright minded active Java developers to reinforce our current and future projects.

·      Participate in and contribute to design and development of high-perform high-available business application, from requirements analysis to production.

·      Work in team using agile methodology of software development (Scrum, 2 weeks iterations, continuous integration, planning games, daily stand up, etc).

·      Analysis and improvement of application(-s) performance.

·      Collaboration with distributed team of developers, testers, analysts (Moscow, Kharkov, San-Francisco)

·     Education in Computer Science or similar; theoretical knowledge in CS: algorithms and complexity estimation, data structures, operation systems, programming languages

·     At least 5 years in Software Development

·     Deep understanding of Java platform – collections, concurrency, etc

·     Unix/Linux at least on user level (bash/ssh/ps/grep etc.)

·     RDBMS experience (SQL, JDBC)

·     Experience of enterprise applications development and deep understanding of main ideas (J2EE, Spring Source, etc): PersistenceManagement, transactions, messaging, dependency management etc.

·     Experience with version control and bug tracking systems

·     Experience with build systems (ant, maven2, etc)

·     Deep understanding of different models in Deployment Architecture (single server, horizontal cluster, virtual machines, etc)

·     Understanding of network protocols TCP/IP, UDP and main principles of network topologies

·     Experience with unit tests and integration tests

·     Deep understanding of OOP/OOD, patterns, UML

·     Desire and ability for quick learning of new tools and technologies

·     Good communication skills and intermediate English level

·     Good understanding of JVM internals

·     Oracle (Tangosol) Coherence or other clustering cache solutions/IMDG

·     Keyword search practice/information retrieval theory — indexes, NLP, stemming, etc; open source products/frameworks — Solr, Lucene

·     Experience of performance problem solving for Java applications — profilers, JVM/GC options tuning, memory leak detection, etc

·     Understanding of ORM frameworks internals

·     Understanding of agile methodology

·     Experience of development, documentation and «sale» of software architecture design for  whole application or separate modules to development team or customer

·     Experience of small development team leadership

·      Competitive salary (after interview)

·      Work on bleeding-edge projects within grid computing and distributed computing with a highly motivated and dedicated team of developers and testers

·      Flexible schedule

·      Business trips to San-Francisco

·      Medical insurance, benefit program,  paid vacation