Software Development Engineer

8x8, Inc. (NASDAQ: EGHT) believes that CX limits were meant to be shattered. We connect people and organizations through seamless communication on the industry's most integrated platform for Customer Experience—combining Contact Center, Unified Communications, and CPaaS APIs. The 8x8® Platform for CX integrates AI at every level to enable personalized customer journeys, drive operational excellence and insights, and facilitate team collaboration.

We help customer experience and IT leaders become the heartbeat of their organizations, empowering them to unlock the potential of every interaction. With one platform, one ecosystem, and one data model, you can turn every team into a customer-facing team and unify your CX to conquer the complexity. 

As an organization, we are looking for Team8s who are AI-proficient, open to innovation, and skilled in leveraging AI for efficiency and growth.

Learn more on our company website at www.8x8.com follow our pages on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our growing technology team. This is an exciting opportunity to become a member of the 8x8 engineering team that is involved in the entire life cycle of development, from the browser to the database.
You will be part of the team that owns high performance, mission critical services, from design to development, deployment and operation at scale.
Get the chance to work in a microservices architecture, add new features, solve day-to-day problems and contribute to system wide technical improvements. All this in an agile run project that is continuously deployed in Kubernetes clusters.
If you enjoy working on highly performant serverside technologies, building APIs, testing, deploying, troubleshooting, fine tuning with keen focus on production stability and uptime this opportunity is perfect for you.

Responsibilities

• Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Write well designed, testable, efficient code
• Understand, interpret, and clarify functional requirements as well as technical requirements for product features
• Ensure designs are in compliance with specifications
• Collaborate and contribute to architecture and design decisions driving product direction
• Prepare and produce releases of software components
• Support Continuous Improvement by investigating alternatives and new technologies and presenting these for architectural review

Qualifications

• Good understanding of object-oriented programming principles
• Strong design and architectural skills
• Proven skills and Hands-on programming experience in Java, preferably leveraging Spring Framework
• Excellent development experience with Java REST web services
• Knowledge of Java concurrency/multithreading and asynchronous APIs
• Comfortable with Java internals (Classloading, Memory Management, Transaction Management, Performance, Annotation Processing)
• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL, and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate)
• Proficiency in Database technologies (SQL and NoSQL)
• Good knowledge of Distributed Systems
• Good knowledge of NFR-s analysis and implementation
• Deliver beautiful and well tested code
• Exposure to AWS (or other Public Cloud)
• Very good understanding of design patterns and microservices
• Experience with test automation at the unit and integration levels.
• Familiar with architecture, design, development, and deployment of enterprise systems
• Passionate about delivering high-quality software
• Experience working in a global environment, across multiple time zones and geographies

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