Senior Java Developer - Work on client site

About the Role:

Do you get challenged to be better than you were the day before? Do you take a keen interest in system architecture, great ways of working and great implementations? Do you have a passion for getting things done? Would you love to create experiences that impact the lives of millions of customers? Then we would like to hear from you!

As a back-end engineer you will develop critical software, expose core services and enable new and sophisticated end user experiences that will make a difference for consumers and for retail industry experts world-wide.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and deploy enterprise back-end services, including new API layers and microservices, hosted in Cloud or hybrid On-Premise/Cloud environments
• Actively participate in a collaborative team that applies principles of Agile, DevOps and CI/CD methodologies
• Work with product owners and stakeholder teams to understand requirements, and translate these into pragmatic and effective technical solutions
• Create technical designs and contribute to system architecture
• Write APIs and service interfaces used by other developers, including web and mobile application developers
• Work on solutions to migrate or encapsulate legacy systems and data to a modern architecture
• Collaborate with teams to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic
• Ensure code quality through writing unit tests, automation and performing code reviews
• Contribute ideas to finding the best solutions for algorithms, technologies and products/tools to be adopted
• Work with product and design teams to understand end-user requirements, formulate use cases, and translate these into pragmatic and effective technical solutions
• Improve code quality through unit tests, automation and performing code reviews
• Mentor and provide feedback to other team members

Required Skills:

• Experience in developing Microservices or Business Services or APIs using Java 8+, Spring Boot
• Demonstrated recent experience with hands-on coding and software design
• Solid software design knowledge – you should know how to create software that is extensible, reusable and meets desired architectural objectives
• Experience with Java
• Solid practitioner of the Agile/Scrum development process, ideally with test-driven development, DevOps and continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD)
• Great communication skills both oral and written
• 5+ years in professional development
• Bachelor’s degree in Software/Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field, or comparable relevant experience

Preferred (Optional) Skills:

• Experience with REST/ XML/JSON, Tomcat
• Understanding of Service Discovery, Inter-Service Communication, Service Deployment and Service Orchestration frameworks
• Exposure to Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure
• Good knowledge and experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, API Connect, Kafka in a cloud environment
• Hands-on experience in Functional Reactive Programming (FRP)
• Familiarity with web front-end development (. HTML, JavaScript and CSS)
• QA skills in testing, scripting and test automation
• Willingness to learn new technologies and approaches
• Readiness to work in a global team with contributors from different backgrounds, skills and locations