Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Hints & Recommendations

About Ancestry: When you join Ancestry, you join a human-centered company where every person’s story is important. We believe that by discovering the struggles and triumphs of our past, we can foster deeper bonds and more meaningful connections among families and communities. Our talented team of scientists, engineers, genealogists, historians, and storytellers is dedicated to empowering customers around the world from all backgrounds on their journeys of personal discovery.

With more than 30+ billion digitized global historical records, 100+ million family trees, and 20+ million people in our growing AncestryDNA database, Ancestry helps customers discover their family story and gain a new level of understanding about their lives. Passionate about dedicating your work to enriching people’s lives? You belong at Ancestry.

A major component of the Ancestry customer experience is interacting with Hints & Recommendations. The Hints & Recommendations team is the backend team that provides APIs to internal and external development teams to deliver Hints & Recommendation information to customers. The primary goal for this team will be to generate, store, manage and quickly retrieve Hints and Recommendation data to the Ancestry community.

What you will do...

• Provide Java technical expertise to your team of software developers and quality engineers (also identifying opportunities for technical advancements and own their delivery)
• Work on development efforts towards successful feature delivery for improved Trees experiences for customers and application developers
• Maintain high standards for software quality by establishing good practices and habits and automated checks
• Collaborate with software developers, marketing team, product owners, architects to plan, design, develop and test applications
• Analyze and resolve technical and application or solution related issues
• Research and evaluate software products that might fit the needs of the solution better (eg. if emerging technologies can improve on performance or scaling etc)

Who you are...

• You are a passionate software engineer, who has a minimum of 5 years of prior platform development experience (Java is ideal)
• You have at least five years’ experience of working on large scale, Enterprise systems
• You have at least five years of relational database experience (Aurora or MySQL preferred)
• Bachelor's in Computer Science degree (or related discipline/experience)

Nice to have...

• Frameworks (Spring is preferred)
• Microservices based architecture (REST)
• Continuous deploy and integration tools like Jenkins
• Designing and developing enterprise grade software in fast-paced distributed environments (highly scalable, reliable, available)
• Agile methodologies (SCRUM)
• Cloud based infrastructure experience is required (AWS is preferred)
• Debugging, performance profiling and optimization is required Additional Information: Ancestry is an Equal Opportunity Employer that makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition, military or veteran status, citizenship, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. In addition, Ancestry will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

All job offers are contingent on a background check screen that complies with applicable law. For San Francisco office candidates, pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Ancestry will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Ancestry is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at Ancestry via-email, the Internet or in any form and/or method without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of Ancestry. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Ancestry as a result of the referral or through other means.