Senior Java Engineer

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Description

We are the team that created OpenVPN, the industry-standard VPN protocol now used by most of the commercial VPN providers worldwide. We are currently looking for a rockstar to push further the product that millions of people around the world will be interacting with on a daily basis! You should have a strong working knowledge of Java, REST APIs, and databases, excellent in understanding security topics, be familiar with TCP/IP networking, SSL VPN, and distributed systems, possess a solid conceptual foundation in the development of distributed and cloud-computing systems, and have network programming understanding on Linux development environments.

You will join a team that is responsible for the requirement specifications, system specifications, software development and maintenance of several critical security-related cloud services.

Our philosophy is that we are a small, closely-knit team and we care deeply about you:

  • Competitive pay rates

  • Fully remote work environments

  • Self-managed time off

Responsibilities

  • Full-cycle development of Linux-based distributed server software, including development from scratch and maintaining existing services;

  • Development of a web-based API (using JSON and REST) for management of product systems;

  • Collaboration with other developers on development and deployment.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of commercial programming experience;

  • 4+ years of experience with Java;

  • Experience of developing modern REST services on Spring Boot;

  • Security topics hands-on with Spring Security (SAML, OAuth2);

  • Experience with RDBMS, NoSQL storages (MongoDB);

  • Experience with deployment on Docker;

  • Experience with messaging in Java (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.);

  • Good understanding of networking;

  • At least upper-intermediate English, both spoken and written;

  • Excellent communication abilities.

Will be a plus

  • Experience working with AWS SDK in Java;

  • Hands-on with plain Java sockets or WebRTC / WebSockets;

  • Hands-on work experience with Linux platforms;

  • Experience in the security space, specifically PKI, encryption, x.509 certificates, SSL;

  • Experience with performance testing (Apache Benchmark, JMeter, Gatling);

  • Experience working with Kubernetes and AWS

  • Open Source experience.

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