About the Role:

We are looking for an engineering leader who ships exceptional software, elevates the capabilities of their team, and can contribute to the technical vision of the new “Xinova X” platform. A successful Xinova engineer is startup savvy, a self-starter, and is committed to delivering high quality code on time and within scope. We are disciplined, focused and continuously improving.

The platform team is responsible for all infrastructure, services, APIs and SDKs that compose Xinova's global innovation network. This includes a rich and growing set of functionalities, such as authorization, authentication, API management, profiles, reputation and social networking, messaging, market exchanges, dynamic workflows, automated connections and contracts, search and more; all while maintaining user integrity, privacy and security.

You will work with a wide variety of technologies including cloud services, container orchestration, pub/sub, batch and streaming data and ML pipelines, blockchain and smart contracts, event and metrics systems, and multiple persistence backends. This role defines our technology roadmap and builds all components of this overall system.

What you get to do:

• Work with the engineering and product leadership to set the technical vision for “Xinova X”
• Lead a small, capable team of engineers
• Design, develop and test large and complex distributed applications, services and platforms
• Design and develop APIs and SDKs in support of these services
• Design secure solutions that establish the highest customer trust using enhanced algorithms/solutions

What we’re looking for:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience developing highly reliable, scalable real-time services, including knowledge in designing RESTful and SOA based services
• Track record of improving engineering team discipline and shipping quality products
• Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals such as algorithms, asynchronous and multithreaded processes, messaging queues, data structures, and serialization/de-serialization
• Experience with cloud services and building distributed storage systems

Bonus points

• You’ve written production code in Go and Python
• You have experience with blockchain technologies

ABOUT US
Xinova is a collective of 12,000 innovators dedicated to turning big problems into bigger solutions. We work with large companies like Pepsi and Honda to help them solve their largest research and product development challenges. 

At the core, we believe problems are a good thing. Our global network of innovators wake up every day believing that each problem is an opportunity to find a solution or application you never thought of. If that's you too, we’d love to have you join us!