Full Stack Software Engineer II – Data Platform team
The driving force behind Big Data at Mimecast
Dive into the forefront of innovation with our Data Platform engineering team, where we process massive volumes of data to delight our customers with insights they love! Our pioneering Data Platform pushes on the boundaries of what’s possible, leveraging the latest technologies and tooling in AWS.
Why Join Our Team?
“If you’re interested in solving customer data challenges at immense scale, the Data Platform team is for you. Our AWS services process billions of events from millions of users each day. With efficient storage and querying capabilities, we’re able to serve requests in milliseconds when querying over huge volumes of data!” – Hiring Manager.
What You’ll Do:
- Implement scalable and reliable microservices on AWS infrastructure.
- Create and maintain comprehensive technical documentation for architectures, processes, and procedures.
- Provide support during critical incidents and implement preventive measures.
- Monitor and analyze AWS usage, providing recommendations for cost savings without compromising system performance and reliability.
- Craft resilient, secure, and efficient code, ensuring optimal performance and minimal downtime.
- Work closely with Product Management, UX designers, and the wider engineering team to deliver.
- Innovative user interfaces and interactive data visualisations.
- Work with fellow UI engineers and UX to build out a suite of loosely-coupled reusable components.
- Generate ideas and develop new ways to visualize and present complex information to users.
- Provide support during critical incidents and implement preventive measures.
- Craft resilient, secure, and efficient code, ensuring optimal performance and minimal downtime.
What You’ll Bring:
- Demonstratable ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment, mentoring junior team members and contributing to a positive team culture.
- Proficiency in modern frontend frameworks and libraries such as React, Angular, or Vue.js.
- Experience with configuring modern tools, such as; Jest, Enzyme, and Webpack.
- Experience collaborating with UX/UI designers to create visually appealing and user-friendly interfaces for showcasing analytical data.
- Strong skills in developing comprehensive end-to-end test suites for all components, and executing them using Cypress (or suitable alternative).
- Experience in utilizing NPM for package management and dependency handling.
- Ability to create and configure CI pipelines for building and testing frontend components.
- Experience with Java development to build services and libraries with Java 11 and above.
- Experience in developing and supporting backend systems for data processing within AWS.
- Hands-on experience with foundational AWS services, such as; ALB, ECS, S3, ElastiCache, IAM CloudWatch.
- Knowledge of implementing and maintaining Kafka-based event-driven services.
- Proficiency in either relational or NoSQL databases, with an understanding of database design, optimization, and management.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
- Knowledge of Jenkins and developing CI/CD pipelines.
What We Bring:
Join our Data Platform team to accelerate your career journey, working with cutting-edge technologies and contributing to projects that have real customer impact. You will be immersed in a dynamic environment that recognizes and celebrates your achievements.
Mimecast offers formal and ‘on the job’ learning opportunities, maintains a comprehensive benefits package that helps our employees and their family members to sustain a healthy lifestyle, and importantly - working in cross functional teams to build your knowledge!
Our Hybrid Model: We provide you with the flexibility to live balanced, healthy lives through our hybrid working model that champions both collaborative teamwork and individual flexibility. Employees are expected to come to the office at least two days per week, because working together in person:
- Fosters a culture of collaboration, communication, performance and learning.
- Drives innovation and creativity within and between teams.
- Introduces employees to priorities outside of their immediate realm.
- Ensures important interpersonal relationships and connections with one another and our community!
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Cybersecurity is a community effort. That’s why we’re committed to building an inclusive, diverse community that celebrates and welcomes everyone – unless they’re a cybercriminal, of course.
We’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and we’d encourage you to join us whatever your background. We particularly welcome applicants from traditionally underrepresented groups.
We consider everyone equally: your race, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, ability, marital status, nationality, or any other protected characteristic won’t affect your application.
Due to certain obligations to our customers, an offer of employment will be subject to your successful completion of applicable background checks, conducted in accordance with local law.
