Software Engineer

Pollfish, a Prodege, LLC company, is an online market research survey platform where data driven brands bring market research in-house for faster and smarter decision making.

We have a proprietary network of 250M consumers/year which enables companies to connect with and understand real consumers worldwide in a fast, easy and cost-effective way.

In 2022, the market research and consumer insights giant Prodege acquired Pollfish.

We have a fresh perspective on market research. Our team is passionate about redefining the way it is talked about, thought about, and conducted.

Pollfish lives in the Cloud, and is deployed several times a day using Kubernetes. A reactive microservice architecture underpins the entire platform. The core application is written in Play (Scala), while the vast majority of the supporting services are using the proven Twitter stack, Finatra/Finagle as well as the Lightbend Akka stack.

All new front end projects are using a React/Redux/Sagas stack, while there is also an old JQuery project that we plan to migrate in the future. Module bundling is handled by webpack, allowing us to optimize, minimize and deploy our static assets using Docker without much hassle.

Data is constantly on the move at Pollfish. From Apache Kafka, to Postgres, to Apache Druid and Cassandra, to the data-lake. Distributed programming based on Apache Spark, and Apache Flink is leveraged to efficiently handle the immense amounts of data that Pollfish has to process daily. Machine Learning and Artificial intelligence models allow Pollfish to tackle fraud, and improve data quality.

Innovation and technical excellence always need to go hand in hand with software quality and the necessary processes to ensure it. Hence, at Pollfish we always try to write testable code and deliver tests together with every piece of software that we write.

We are looking to strengthen our team with a talented Mid Level to Senior Engineer, mostly oriented in back end development, to be a part of our engineering team and work with our PO, and engineers.

Requirements

• Strong knowledge in one of Scala/Java/Kotlin or perhaps even Python or Ruby or Go.

• Experience with MVC web frameworks (Play, Spring, Web MVC, etc.) and RESTful APIs

• Experience with technologies like Redis, EhCache, ORMs(eg: Hibernate)

• Experience with relational databases (eg: PostgreSQL, MySQL)

• Familiarity with NoSQL databases like ElasticSearch, Cassandra, Druid, etc.

• Familiar with End-to-End and Unit Testing

• Gets excited about new technologies and is unafraid to dive in, learn and use them

• Can operate in a fast paced startup environment

• Team player

Benefits

• An attractive salary package

• Part of an innovative tech company

• Private Health Insurance

• Company Equity

• Weekly Office Events - Catered Lunch and Breakfast

• Stocked Kitchen

• Company Outings & Quarterly Events

• Hybrid Working

• Meal Coupons - Monthly

• LinkedIn Learning & Training Opportunities/Budget

• Mental Health Benefits - Wellness Coach App Subscription

• Great office location in the city center - Parking slots available

• Gym Subscription - UP Fit

• Quarterly Charitable Giving Allowance

• Peer recognition Allowance

Pollfish, a Prodege company is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer, making decisions without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, marital status, protected veteran status or any other protected class.