Job Application for Sr. Software Engineer - Messaging at Twilio

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About us:

• Twilio is migrating the communications industry from its 150-year-old legacy in hardware to its future in software. With our cloud communications platform, we fundamentally change how businesses build solutions for their communications needs.
• Twilio has virtualized the entire telecommunications infrastructure stack into a set of streamlined cloud APIs, introducing agility, global reach and cost savings of flexible, multi-tenant cloud software to the traditionally expensive and slow moving field of telecommunications.
• Hundreds of thousands of developers have incorporated Twilio into their companies and products, deploying everything from complete call centers to work scheduling applications, from mobile marketing and lead management to tools that improve customer security.
• Our customers are the innovators you recognize and respect, from start-ups like Uber, Box and Airbnb, to the agile enterprises including Coca-Cola, the Home Depot, Alaska Airlines, Walmart and more.
• Come help us transform this 1.3 trillion dollar industry with the power and flexibility of software.

About the Job:

• We’re seeking talented senior engineers to help build the best telecommunications API on the planet. 
• Successful candidates will be strong developers with experience shipping high-profile user-facing products, working in large code bases, and engineering features for security, scalability, & high availability.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with product management to define, architect, and build new customer-facing features.
• Own, operate, and maintain your team’s services in production.
• Tackle some of the most challenging problems in real-time messaging.
• Write quality, maintainable code with extensive test coverage in a fast-paced professional software engineering environment.  Primary languages are Scala, Java, and Python.

Requirements:

• You ship software fast and frequently.
• A Computer Science degree, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years in industry as a developer working on mission-critical user-facing systems.
• Experience with traditional RDBMS databases, such as MySQL, Postgres, Oracle.
• Experience building scalable, highly-available service oriented architectures.
• Deep experience of server-side programming using Java and multi-threaded programming.
• Deep understanding of the IP networking stack and HTTP.
• Knowledge of REST based services.
• Passionate. Persistent. Creative. You find clever ways around problems, or just plow through them.

Bonus points:

• Experience with NoSQL databases.
• Experience with messaging protocols such as SMPP, XMPP, MM4, MM7, SIP/SIMPLE.
• Experience with build/deployment tools such as Maven, Chef and Jenkins.

Perks:

• Competitive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, 401k and life insurance.
• An Amazon Kindle, $30/month to spend on books and a Twilio track jacket after demoing your first Twilio app in front of the company!
• Pre-tax commuter benefits.
• Catered lunches and a weekly team dinner featuring invited technology and entrepreneurial speakers.
• Excellent gear (we ❤ Apple computers and big monitors — two if you need 'em).
• A strong belief in life/work balance.

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