Middle/Senior Back-End (Java) Developer

We are a boutique technology company that has close relationships with several partners, working hand in hand with them to deliver high-quality software from a roadmap of innovative and complex features in a high-transactional environment.

Responsibilities:

• Writing backend code and tests (with an eye for full stack) as well as leveraging open source technologies to get reliable results;
• Improving code quality through testing, refactoring, peer-reviews, and pair programming while emphasizing simplicity;
• Championing software quality, innovation and appropriate technology choices;
• Working effectively in an agile team using Scrum, XPand Lean practices, e.g. participating in daily stand-ups, planning sessions, showcases and retrospectives;
• Collaborating with business stakeholders and internal users to design and deliver products that attract new customers and keep them coming back;
• Writing end-to-end user stories that steer a technical design that can be iteratively developed by the entire team;
• Performing root cause analysis to ensure that mistakes are properly understood and not repeated;
• Contributing to coding standards and guidelines a swell as setting a good example of adhering to them;
• Standing by your solutions to ensure that both you and the team have the tools and ability to support its operation after hours.

Requirements:

• Extensive knowledge of Java, Spring and associated technologies: JUnit, Web Application Servers (e.g. Jetty/Tomcat), Gradle/Maven/Ant;
• Strong knowledge ofMySQL and writing optimized database queries;
• Thorough understanding of architectural software concepts, Object-Oriented and Functional programming, MVC/MV* architectures, asynchronous server communication;
• Experience in the design and development of RESTful web services and JSON handling;
• Able to use Git and understand distributed version control strategies;
• Software craftsman, with a rigorous and disciplined approach to writing simple and effective software but not afraid to learn from failure and tell others about mistakes;
• Knowledgeable in web software architectures and design patterns;
• You champion agile principles and are a strong advocate for Continuous Delivery, TDD, Refactoring and Pair Programming;
• Familiar with using a tracking system such as JIRA;
• Have an aptitude and willingness to learn the business domain and new technologies;
• A genuinely nice person, opinionated but humble enough to work with anyone.

Desirable:

• Familiar with Groovy, Spock, Hibernate, Spring Boot;
• Have used cloud services like AWS orGoogle App Engine;
• Experience of integrating backend services with NodeJS, Angular, Ionic or a similar framework for mobile site development;
• Experience of using Google Analytics and logging services like Datadog and Splunk to track product usage and drive features;
• Knowledge of multi-threaded programming and concurrency;
• Experience using virtual services like Docker to automatically build new environments for development and testing;
• Track record of delivering scalable applications that are performant under high traffic volumes and leverage aCDN like Fastly;
• Comfortable working in a Linux environment with scripting languages;
• Interested in full stack development and a dev-ops approach to delivery.

Personal skills:

• Self Motivated team player;
• Reliable person in development;
• Keen to do things better;
• Strong communication and problem solving skills.
• Product goals-oriented
• Team player

You will get:

• Working in a product company with a dynamic environment and several projects.
• Act and improve. Your ideas for improvements.
• Team of motivated professionals.
• Continuous self-improvement and growth, including certifications and courses.
• Bonuses $.