Mid-Senior Back-End Engineer Java or Kotlin

Role Overview

In this role you will be responsible for the design and implementation of the event-driven microservices architecture, bringing the responsiveness, efficiency, scalability, robustness and security of the system up to the next level.

Main Responsibilities

• Take the ownership of core system services, continuously improve the quality of the services by refactoring the architectural design and applying state-of-the-art technologies
• Establish and promote best practices in terms of the software lifecycle and QA, develop software solutions in key business areas.
• Contribute to the technical roadmap and bridge existing gaps by bringing on board extensive knowledge and skills on Cloud-native event-driven microservice architecture
• Collaborate with Product and Data teams to streamline the existing business processes and data flows
• Collaboration with the Head of DevOps to consolidate the existing software infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines
• Document, demonstrate and disseminate solutions by technical reports, diagrams, and blogs/vlogs

Experience Required

• 4+ years of experience as a professional software engineer using Java
• A track record of successfully delivering software projects using Service-Oriented, Cloud-based and event-driven techniques
• In-depth knowledge and skills in the Spring framework, including Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring Cloud, and Spring Security
• Extensive experience in using RDBMS and NoSQL databases
• Extensive experience in using Apache Kafka
• Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with Jenkins based automated CI/CD pipelines
• Familiarity with static code analysis, TDD/BDD, exception handling, and monitoring and alerting facilities, such as Sonarqube, Pact, Cucumber, Sentry, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana and PagerDuty
• Familiarity with project management tools
• Excellent presentation, oral and written communication skills
• Strength in problem solving and issue-resolution with good attention to detail

Nice to have OR willing to learn

• Kotlin

Personal Characteristics

• Strongly motivated and sets demanding standards for personal excellence
• Autonomous self-starter and highly driven, able to lead large teams and initiatives with limited oversight
• Effective collaborator with other team members
• Independent thinker, inquisitive, eager to improve and learn
• Confident being part of a small team that is building a business
• Communicates rapidly, openly, inclusively and efficiently
• Structured thought process and clear communication

Benefits & Perks

• Highly competitive salary
• Potential for equity participation
• 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays
• Work from home
• Ability to influence project technologies;
• Exceptional team of experienced and motivated individuals from a range of industries.