X-Mode provides real-time location data and technologies that power location intelligence for advertising and business decisions in financial services, healthcare, high-tech, real-estate, retail, and the public sector. X-Mode’s flagship product is a fast-growing big data location platform, which maps daily the precise routes of 10% of the U.S. Population and maps monthly 1 in 3 adult U.S. smartphone users. X-Mode strives to produce and monetize the world’s largest location platform and ultimately create a global “living map” of 1 billion people with the highest quality location data in order to fuel the best location intelligence business solutions.
X-Mode Social, Inc. is looking for a full time back-end developer to work on X-Mode’s data platform and join our rapidly growing team.For this position, you can either work remotely OR in our Sterling, VA Headquarters.
REQUIREMENTS:
Scala experience
Experience working with very large databases and batch processing datasets with hundreds of millions of records
Four years working with SQL and relational databases
Four years Linux experience
Two years working with cloud services, ideally in AWS
Self-motivated learner / self-teaching
Self-starter who can maintain a team-centered outlook
Experience with Hadoop ecosystem, e.g. Spark, Hive, or Presto/Athena
Real-time streaming with Kinesis, Kafka or similar libraries
DESIRABLE
Python
Machine Learning
Elasticsearch or Solr
GIS/Geospatial tools/analysis
Our technical staff is scattered across the U.S, so you’ll need to be comfortable working remotely. We often use Phone, Google Hangouts and UberConference to coordinate, as well as Basecamp, Jira and Trello for tasking, and bit bucket for source control.
We work in short sprints, and we’ll count on you to provide estimates for tasks to be completed and delivered. We’re looking to hire someone to start right away!Think you’ve got what it takes? Apply below and feel free to email hiring@xmodesocial.com if you have any questions.
