QAD Redzone helps manufacturers make more stuff for less while greatly improving the employee experience. We make frontline workers more engaged and more productive, so their lives improve while contributing to positive business outcomes.  We do this by combining exceptional software and world class coaching.  There’s never been a better time to join our incredible team. Join us and help manufacturers drive change in their operations to increase productivity, increase employee engagement, and bring dignity and pride to frontline workers around the world!  

Continuing to grow our Engineering organization, we are searching for an experienced Senior Backend Engineer. This exciting role within our Engineering organization will have the opportunity to help us continue to scale our platform to meet the needs of hundreds of thousands of factory workers globally.

Working within a cross functional squad of value aligned engineers, this person will help with both the creation of new features and assist in the scaling of our core backend code base.

As such, this senior level role within the Redzone Engineering team requires a strong engineer that not only has skills in backend server development and architectures, but they also possess practical experience in aspects of scaling including caching, microservices, and modularization. The ideal individual is forward thinking technically speaking with a proven history of taking projects from concept to completion.

This position can be based anywhere in the US - remote. It is full time, exempt and requires minimal travel.

What you'll do:

• Collaborate with external stakeholders to design, estimate and develop requested changes to Scala Applications
• Attend daily team standup meetings communicating progress and assisting peers
• Review code of peers to ensure that all software meets high quality standards
• Comfortable working independently and in highly collaborative team environment to consistently deliver on your commitments
• Knowledge of recent developments in Scala programming and technology

• 7+ years’ experience as a senior level engineer developing backend applications
• 5+ years’ experience working in Scala
• Experience working libraries such as Akka HTTP, Tapir, Slick, Flyway, SBT, Specs2 and Mockito, and Kafka
• Experience working within Engineering teams in an Agile software development environment
• Experience with test automation 
• Experience with common CI/CD tools and processes for managing backend applications
• Ability to work independently and remotely

Education/Experience 

• Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering
• A demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast-paced environment
• Efficiency – always looking at how to improve a process
• Team player – work as part of a team and be willing to speak up when needed
• Experience working in a remote team

Why should you join us?

• Our culture is energetic! You are valued and career recognition follows.
• Personal development – we stay at the cutting edge of best practices and technologies.
• Redzone is a great place to work, and we do great work for our customers.
• We push the boundaries for enterprise software through technology and how people use and engage software in their daily business.

We are looking for bright, intelligent, dynamic individuals who want to join us on this mission. Leaders that see the power in people and can leverage technology to change the way work is done. We ‘keep it real’ at QAD Redzone, so want to know who you really are. We love big personalities, with big ideas, who want to make a difference in the world. You will be hungry and driven and enjoy the challenge of changing an industry. You will be excited by the opportunity to work with the fastest growing company in the space, where hard work is recognized and rewarded accordingly.

Compensation Package:

• Base pay range: $130k to $200k USD Annually (12 Months) 
• Placement within our pay range will vary based on knowledge, skills, experience, and market location variations as well as internal peer equity
• This position is also eligible for an annual company performance bonus
• U.S. benefits package includes medical, dental and vision coverage, a 401(k) plan with company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, paid-time off, parental leave, and well-being programs

About QAD and QAD Redzone:

QAD Inc. is a leading provider of adaptive, cloud-based enterprise software and services for global manufacturing companies. Global manufacturers face ever-increasing disruption caused by technology-driven innovation and changing consumer preferences. In order to survive and thrive, manufacturers must be able to innovate and change business models at unprecedented rates of speed. QAD calls these companies Adaptive Manufacturing Enterprises.  

QAD Redzone helps to enable QAD’s vision for the Adaptive Enterprise. Labor productivity improvements directly impact efficiency. Productive and empowered employees increase the effective capacity of your plant and accelerate time to productivity for new employees giving manufacturers the agility to increase production beyond what was previously possible without having to invest in production equipment or new plants, and reduce the amount and impact of employee attrition. Empowered employees with a growth mindset take extreme ownership of challenges that impact their production goals, creating resilience in the face of disruption.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. 

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