Skai, Inc. - Arlington, VA (Washington, DC)
Hiring Talented and Ambitious Developers for the future of Big Data
About Skai:
Originally funded out of the MIT computer science community, Skai is a fast-growing technology company. With over 1,000 pages of intellectual property behind our core technology, we are disrupting the data integration market by delivering a cloud platform for the next generation of big data. Skai is working with some of the largest Fortune 500’s. Although we can’t go into any more detail in this space, we’d love to tell you more once you’ve applied!
Senior Back-End Developer
Join our engineering team as we tackle the challenges of distributed data and computation. As part of the platform development team, you’ll participate actively in all phases of the development process: architecture, design and implementation. If you’re interested in graphs, distributed data structures, functional programming paradigms, reactive computation, and distributed systems – or if you’re curious how those things come together to form a powerful model for integrating and transforming data at scale – we’d love to talk to you!
Skills &amp; Requirements: 
Need to have: 
--  Java proficiency
--  Excellent communication skills
--  Basic experience with the Hadoop ecosystem
--  B.S. in computer science or equivalent experience
Nice to have:
--  HBase proficiency
--  Hadoop MapReduce proficiency
--  Distributed systems experience
--  Scala proficiency
--  NoSQL
--  Experience using Spark or other tools in Berkeley Data Analytics stack
--  Experience with Akka actor framework
We want our developers to be happy and productive, and we don’t hesitate to buy whatever software or hardware tools are needed to make that happen. We also like to relax with board games and ping pong on Friday afternoons. We offer competitive compensation, including stock options.
You can check out our website at <a href="http://skai.net/" > (...it's currently undergoing a complete overhaul).
If any or all of this sounds like the kind of work you want to do with the team you want to be a part of, then reach out to us at REDACTED_EMAIL
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