Kik Interactive Inc.is looking for Server developer to join their team located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Developers at Kik build, scale and maintain software services that define the basic components of the core messaging Kick Messenger. As a developer in the Kik team, you will face one of the most difficult challenges in modern software engineering. You will have the opportunity to work on a highly-scaled distributed system (Our core infrastructure receives hundreds of millions of messages per day with an uptime in excess of 99.9%.) You and your fellow developers will power the core of a system relied on every day by over 186 million users.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain high-performance, fault-tolerant, scalable distributed software systems.
• Write code that is performant, maintainable, clear, and concise.
• Work closely with other developers within your group and across the entire engineering organization.
• Develop elegant solutions to complex problems.

You're in team if :

• Have strong algorithms and data structures background.
• Experienced in BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent degree

Will be an advantage:

• Experience with fault-tolerant distributed systems.
• Experience with software engineering best practices: unit testing, code reviews, design documentation, etc.
• Development experience with Java, including concurrency and performance.

You'll find a great opportunity to work in Canada near the one of the best research-intensive universities in country, communicate with like-minded international team and develop valuable product which has quickly become one of the most popular instant messengers in Ukraine.

This job is not for the weak. But it's totally worth it. Are you up to the challenge?

Looking forward your CV and soon meeting