Staff Backend Engineer (Video Collaboration Platform)
8x8
Software Engineering
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Posted on Thursday, June 29, 2023
At 8x8 Inc. [Nasdaq:EGHT] we put communications at the heart of our business and build technology that allows people to connect anytime, anywhere they are in the world, and on any device. XCaaS - the 8x8 eXperience Communications Platform - brings together Employee and Customer Experience, enabling hybrid workforces across the globe to connect, collaborate, and delight customers, while providing businesses with real-time communications analytics, intelligence and unique insights.
Learn more on our company website at www.8x8.com and follow our pages on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.
What we’re looking for:
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer with Java programming skills to join our Video Collaboration Platform team in Cluj. You will be part of a team responsible for the development life cycle of 8x8’s Video Conferencing products, like https://8x8.vc and Jitsi as a Service https://jaas.8x8.vc. In doing so, you will contribute to the open source video collaboration platform Jitsi - https://jitsi.org, closely collaborating with the multidisciplinary team that maintains Jitsi.
What you’ll do at 8x8:
- Design and implement web application functionalities using Java as a main language
- Contribute to the full development lifecycle - design, develop, test, deploy, maintain code
- Work closely with our product management and design to clarify and satisfy feature specifications
- Evaluate and benchmark AI solutions to integrate them into existing systems
- Prepare and release new versions of services
- Diagnose and address issues involving complex system interdependencies, scale, unfamiliar codebase
- Contribute and provide value to multiple products and services.
- Promote and drive innovation, quality and performance initiatives within the team and throughout 8x8
- Mentor and educate engineers on best practices and new technologies.
- Adhere to high quality standards through unit testing and automation
- Join a dynamic team and become part of a large open-source community
What you bring to the team:
- 8+ years of experience in Java backend development
- Good understanding of object-oriented programming principles
- Strong design and architectural skills
- Proven experience in Java
- Solid knowledge of the Spring framework, REST Web Services, SQL
- Experience working with cloud providers (e.g AWS, OCI), with Linux and technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes is an advantage
- Background in application and communication protocols (HTTP, WebSocket, XMPP, WebRTC), networking and security is an advantage
- Interest in experiencig with AI models is a plus
- Good analytical and creative problem solving skills
- Good written and verbal communication skills in English
Some perks you’ll get to enjoy if you join us:
- 25 annual leave days. Additional 1 leave day for every 2 complete years of employment (max. up to 5 days)
- Bank Holidays (Public Holidays) during the weekend, are observed on weekdays
- Private Healthcare Insurance (including dental), Group Life Insurance, Private Pension
- Telecom allowance, Newborn allowance, Christmas and Easter Allowance
- Meal Tickets, Flexible Benefits Platform
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
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