Positive Thinking Company

Overview of job

Instaclustr is one of Positive Thinking Company's Partners.

Instaclustr was founded in 2013 with the sole purpose of helping companies unlock the power of open-source technologies, Instaclustr is a one-stop destination for deploying, managing and monitoring all components of the data layer and related infrastructure for companies of all sizes. Instaclustr has presence in Australia, the United States and Europe.​

Instaclustr constantly offers a range of customizable consulting solutions accelerating the adoption of open-source technologies and maximizing the benefits of these deployments; Data Services Management Platform and 24×7 expert and dedicated support.​

What you will do

• Work with the team to help organize the team’s activities, and will play an important role in mentoring and developing more junior team members, while having plenty of time to do your own development work, and will sometimes lead more complex development tasks involving multiple people. 
• Work closely with a broader open source ecosystem and contributions upstream are encouraged and part of your day to day work.
• Required minimum 90% hands-on complex coding/ investigation/ technical design, 10% on communicating with stakeholders.
• Input and advice on many areas of the team’s operation.
• Provide continuous support and guidance to less senior colleagues through regular coaching activities and support them in fulfilling their personal development plans.

• Strong sense of ownership, willingness to contribute to common goal 
• Strong communication and teamwork skills
• 5+ Years of working experience and solid Computer Science/Engineering skills, e.g. concurrency, algorithms, data structures, distributed system concepts, especially with programming language like Java, Golang, Python, Scala, C#,…
• Experience in supporting/working with high velocity development processes 
• An ability to understand and communicate abstract ideas and problems
• Willingness to learn new technologies
• Ability to work confidently in Java (Python & SQL experience would be advantageous)
• Experience with Cloud environments and concepts (AWS, Google or Azure)
• Good English communication skills (both verbal & written), especially in the global software development environment

It's great if you have

• Experience in low level networking, protocol design, high performance network programming
• Experience in working with or managing Redis, Cassandra, Postgres, Elasticsearch or Kafka databases
• Experience with DevOps principles and technology (e.g. Jenkins, Terraform, Docker)